03761nam 22006854a 450 991044971380332120200520144314.097866127588291-59734-832-50-520-92464-91-282-75882-910.1525/9780520924642(CKB)1000000000221731(EBL)224711(OCoLC)475931787(SSID)ssj0000229176(PQKBManifestationID)11219578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000229176(PQKBWorkID)10167944(PQKB)10788454(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056028(OCoLC)49570148(MdBmJHUP)muse30412(DE-B1597)520209(OCoLC)990605005(DE-B1597)9780520924642(Au-PeEL)EBL224711(CaPaEBR)ebr10054446(CaONFJC)MIL275882(MiAaPQ)EBC224711(EXLCZ)99100000000022173119991028d2001 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe promise of the city space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought /Kian Tajbakhsh1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20011 online resource (247 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22277-6 0-520-22278-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Preface --Introduction: Identity, Structure, and the Spaces of the City --1. Marxian Class Analysis, Essentialism, and the Problem of Urban Identity --2. Beyond the Functionalist Bias in Urban Theory --3. Toward the Historicity and the Contingency of Identity --4. Difference, Democracy, and the City --Notes --Selected Bibliography --IndexThe Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm. Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities.Sociology, UrbanMarxian school of sociologySociology, Urban.Marxian school of sociology.307.76Tajbakhsh Kian1962-1032523MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910449713803321The promise of the city2450448UNINA