LEADER 03761nam 22006854a 450 001 9910449713803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612758829 010 $a1-59734-832-5 010 $a0-520-92464-9 010 $a1-282-75882-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520924642 035 $a(CKB)1000000000221731 035 $a(EBL)224711 035 $a(OCoLC)475931787 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000229176 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11219578 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000229176 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10167944 035 $a(PQKB)10788454 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056028 035 $a(OCoLC)49570148 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30412 035 $a(DE-B1597)520209 035 $a(OCoLC)990605005 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520924642 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224711 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10054446 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275882 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224711 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000221731 100 $a19991028d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe promise of the city $espace, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought /$fKian Tajbakhsh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22277-6 311 0 $a0-520-22278-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Identity, Structure, and the Spaces of the City --$t1. Marxian Class Analysis, Essentialism, and the Problem of Urban Identity --$t2. Beyond the Functionalist Bias in Urban Theory --$t3. Toward the Historicity and the Contingency of Identity --$t4. Difference, Democracy, and the City --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aMarxian school of sociology 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aMarxian school of sociology. 676 $a307.76 700 $aTajbakhsh$b Kian$f1962-$01032523 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449713803321 996 $aThe promise of the city$92450448 997 $aUNINA