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Urban Geography : A Critical Introduction
| Urban Geography : A Critical Introduction |
| Autore | Jonas Andrew E. G |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
McCannEugene
ThomasMary |
| Collana | Critical Introductions to Geography Ser. |
| Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781118608500
9781405189798 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Approaching the City -- 1.1 Introduction -- Bright lights, big city -- Academic approaches -- 1.2 Being Geographical, Being Urbanist -- Defining "the urban" as an object of study -- 1.3 Approaching Cities as Processes: Urbanization and Development, Urbanism, and Planning -- Urbanization and development -- Urbanism -- Planning -- Summary -- 1.4 Urban Geography: Foundational Approaches -- Before there was Urban Geography: The Chicago School -- Urban geography, from the Chicago School to the quantitative revolution -- 1.5 Conclusion: Building on our Foundations -- 1.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Developing Critical Urban Theories and Concepts -- Gentrification and the "rent gap" as critical concepts -- Being critical by combining the abstract and the concrete -- 2.3 Social Relevance and Public Action -- Public urban geographies and the right to the city -- Occupying urban space and urban political discourse -- 2.4 Ordinary Urbanism in a World of Cities -- Critical geographies beyond the academy -- Critical geographies beyond the global North: Ordinariness, difference,and decentering urban theory -- 2.5 Positively Different, Positively Critical -- 2.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Production, Economy, and the City -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Urbanization and the Regional Dynamics of the Production System -- Accumulation, urbanization, and capitalist development -- Urban development under mass production -- 3.3 Patterns and Processes of Urban and Regional Development after Fordism -- 3.4 Globalization as regional urbanization -- Uneven regional development in the United Kingdom.
Racism and uneven urban development: the case of redlining -- 3.5 Gentrification: The Economic Revival of the Inner City? -- 3.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 3.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 4 A World of Cities -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 There is Nothing New About Global Cities -- 4.3 Cities in the Contemporary World: The Global Cities Literature -- Economic command, control, and connection, post-1970 -- Specifying "globalness": Advanced producer services and the command and control of the global economy -- Measuring and mapping command, control, and connections -- 4.4 Beyond a "Citadel Geography": The Critique of the Dominant Global Cities Approach -- 4.5 Toward Critical Geographies of Ordinary Urbanism: Researching a World of Cities -- Ordinary urbanism on the move -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 4.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Labor and the City -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Why your Labor Matters: Making a Living in the City -- 5.3 The Control and Segmentation of Labor in the Industrial City -- The control and segregation of labor in the new international division of labor -- 5.4 The Urban Labor Market: Dynamic Dependencies Between Employers and Workers -- 5.5 Welfare-to-Work and the Rise of Contingent Labor in the City -- 5.6 Resisting Urban Economic Change: Labor and Community Coalitions -- Contesting deindustrialization in Chicago -- Living wage campaigns in London -- 5.7 Summary and Conclusion -- 5.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 6 The City and Social Reproduction -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Defining the Gendered Spaces of Social Reproduction -- Women's work, love, and the social reproduction of capitalism -- 6.3 Social Reproduction and Urban Form -- Social reproduction and urban form in Kolkata, India -- 6.4 Changing Spaces of Social Reproduction -- The case of public housing in the United States -- The case of undocumented migrant life in the United States. The case of structural adjustment in Kingston, Jamaica -- 6.5 Summary -- 6.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Governing the City The State, Urban Planning, and Politics -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Capitalist Urbanization: Planning, Social Provision, and the Housing Question -- The provision of housing -- 7.3 Urban Entrepreneurialism and the New Urban Politics -- Entrepreneurial urban policies -- 7.4 Suburban Development and Metropolitan Political Fragmentation -- Edge cities and postsuburban space -- Gated communities -- 7.5 De Facto Urban Policy and the Rise of City-Regionalism -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 7.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Experiencing Cities -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 What is "Experience"? -- Social difference and power -- 8.3 Social Space, City Space -- Gentrification -- Is the "ghetto" your home? -- Homelessness -- Youth geographies and consumption spaces -- 8.4 Is there an Urban Identity? -- 8.5 Emotions and City Life -- 8.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Entrepreneurialism -- 9.3 Who Markets Cities and to Whom? Key Actors and Audiences -- 9.4 Making the Pitch: The Strategies and Politics of Shaping Urban Identities for the Market -- Imagineering the built environment as a resource for production and consumption -- People as resources for production and consumption -- Managing and policing the Imagineered city -- The politics of maintaining a city's image -- 9.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 9.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Nature and Environment in the City -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Nature in the Modern Metropolis -- Urban metabolism -- Positive environmentalism -- Disease, life, and death in the modern city -- 10.3 Regulating Nature and Environment in the City. Regulating the boundaries between city and countryside -- Re-imagining nature in the entrepreneurial city -- 10.4 The Urban Sustainability Fix: Towards Low Carbon Cities -- 10.5 Summary and Conclusion -- 10.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Art, Aesthetics, and Urban Space -- 11.3 Visuality -- 11.4 The Artistic Mode of Production -- 11.5 Architecture, Verticality, and the Nation -- 11.6 Museums and Memorialization -- 11.7 Summary and Conclusions -- 11.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Beyond Mainstream Urban Development Politics -- 12.3 The Right to the City and the New Urban Commons -- The right to the city -- The new urban commons -- 12.4 The City, Citizenship, and Democracy -- 12.5 Environmental and Social Justice in the City -- 12.6 Circuits of Value and Alternative Urban Enterprises -- 12.7 Summary and Conclusions -- 12.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Urban Crises -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Global Financial Crisis and Austerity Urbanism -- 13.3 Shrinking Cities -- The effects of shrinkage on urban identity and memory -- 13.4 National Political Unrest -- Bangkok, Thailand -- 13.5 The Urban Carceral Society -- The carceral society away from prison -- 13.6 Militarization of the City, Urbanization of the Military -- 13.7 Summary and Conclusions -- 13.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Ways Forward -- Exploring interconnected urban worlds -- Looking for new and existing alliances and social movements in the city -- Rescaling knowledge of the state and citizenship around the city -- Revealing urban geographies of social reproduction -- Planning for social and environmental justice in the city -- 14.3 Final reflections and Conclusions -- Glossary. References -- Index -- EULA. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795834103321 |
Jonas Andrew E. G
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| Chicester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban Geography : A Critical Introduction
| Urban Geography : A Critical Introduction |
| Autore | Jonas Andrew E. G |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
| Disciplina | 307.76 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
McCannEugene
ThomasMary |
| Collana | Critical Introductions to Geography Ser. |
| Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781118608500
9781405189798 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Approaching the City -- 1.1 Introduction -- Bright lights, big city -- Academic approaches -- 1.2 Being Geographical, Being Urbanist -- Defining "the urban" as an object of study -- 1.3 Approaching Cities as Processes: Urbanization and Development, Urbanism, and Planning -- Urbanization and development -- Urbanism -- Planning -- Summary -- 1.4 Urban Geography: Foundational Approaches -- Before there was Urban Geography: The Chicago School -- Urban geography, from the Chicago School to the quantitative revolution -- 1.5 Conclusion: Building on our Foundations -- 1.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Developing Critical Urban Theories and Concepts -- Gentrification and the "rent gap" as critical concepts -- Being critical by combining the abstract and the concrete -- 2.3 Social Relevance and Public Action -- Public urban geographies and the right to the city -- Occupying urban space and urban political discourse -- 2.4 Ordinary Urbanism in a World of Cities -- Critical geographies beyond the academy -- Critical geographies beyond the global North: Ordinariness, difference,and decentering urban theory -- 2.5 Positively Different, Positively Critical -- 2.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Production, Economy, and the City -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Urbanization and the Regional Dynamics of the Production System -- Accumulation, urbanization, and capitalist development -- Urban development under mass production -- 3.3 Patterns and Processes of Urban and Regional Development after Fordism -- 3.4 Globalization as regional urbanization -- Uneven regional development in the United Kingdom.
Racism and uneven urban development: the case of redlining -- 3.5 Gentrification: The Economic Revival of the Inner City? -- 3.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 3.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 4 A World of Cities -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 There is Nothing New About Global Cities -- 4.3 Cities in the Contemporary World: The Global Cities Literature -- Economic command, control, and connection, post-1970 -- Specifying "globalness": Advanced producer services and the command and control of the global economy -- Measuring and mapping command, control, and connections -- 4.4 Beyond a "Citadel Geography": The Critique of the Dominant Global Cities Approach -- 4.5 Toward Critical Geographies of Ordinary Urbanism: Researching a World of Cities -- Ordinary urbanism on the move -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 4.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Labor and the City -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Why your Labor Matters: Making a Living in the City -- 5.3 The Control and Segmentation of Labor in the Industrial City -- The control and segregation of labor in the new international division of labor -- 5.4 The Urban Labor Market: Dynamic Dependencies Between Employers and Workers -- 5.5 Welfare-to-Work and the Rise of Contingent Labor in the City -- 5.6 Resisting Urban Economic Change: Labor and Community Coalitions -- Contesting deindustrialization in Chicago -- Living wage campaigns in London -- 5.7 Summary and Conclusion -- 5.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 6 The City and Social Reproduction -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Defining the Gendered Spaces of Social Reproduction -- Women's work, love, and the social reproduction of capitalism -- 6.3 Social Reproduction and Urban Form -- Social reproduction and urban form in Kolkata, India -- 6.4 Changing Spaces of Social Reproduction -- The case of public housing in the United States -- The case of undocumented migrant life in the United States. The case of structural adjustment in Kingston, Jamaica -- 6.5 Summary -- 6.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Governing the City The State, Urban Planning, and Politics -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Capitalist Urbanization: Planning, Social Provision, and the Housing Question -- The provision of housing -- 7.3 Urban Entrepreneurialism and the New Urban Politics -- Entrepreneurial urban policies -- 7.4 Suburban Development and Metropolitan Political Fragmentation -- Edge cities and postsuburban space -- Gated communities -- 7.5 De Facto Urban Policy and the Rise of City-Regionalism -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 7.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Experiencing Cities -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 What is "Experience"? -- Social difference and power -- 8.3 Social Space, City Space -- Gentrification -- Is the "ghetto" your home? -- Homelessness -- Youth geographies and consumption spaces -- 8.4 Is there an Urban Identity? -- 8.5 Emotions and City Life -- 8.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Entrepreneurialism -- 9.3 Who Markets Cities and to Whom? Key Actors and Audiences -- 9.4 Making the Pitch: The Strategies and Politics of Shaping Urban Identities for the Market -- Imagineering the built environment as a resource for production and consumption -- People as resources for production and consumption -- Managing and policing the Imagineered city -- The politics of maintaining a city's image -- 9.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 9.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Nature and Environment in the City -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Nature in the Modern Metropolis -- Urban metabolism -- Positive environmentalism -- Disease, life, and death in the modern city -- 10.3 Regulating Nature and Environment in the City. Regulating the boundaries between city and countryside -- Re-imagining nature in the entrepreneurial city -- 10.4 The Urban Sustainability Fix: Towards Low Carbon Cities -- 10.5 Summary and Conclusion -- 10.6 Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Art, Aesthetics, and Urban Space -- 11.3 Visuality -- 11.4 The Artistic Mode of Production -- 11.5 Architecture, Verticality, and the Nation -- 11.6 Museums and Memorialization -- 11.7 Summary and Conclusions -- 11.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Beyond Mainstream Urban Development Politics -- 12.3 The Right to the City and the New Urban Commons -- The right to the city -- The new urban commons -- 12.4 The City, Citizenship, and Democracy -- 12.5 Environmental and Social Justice in the City -- 12.6 Circuits of Value and Alternative Urban Enterprises -- 12.7 Summary and Conclusions -- 12.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 13 Urban Crises -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Global Financial Crisis and Austerity Urbanism -- 13.3 Shrinking Cities -- The effects of shrinkage on urban identity and memory -- 13.4 National Political Unrest -- Bangkok, Thailand -- 13.5 The Urban Carceral Society -- The carceral society away from prison -- 13.6 Militarization of the City, Urbanization of the Military -- 13.7 Summary and Conclusions -- 13.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Ways Forward -- Exploring interconnected urban worlds -- Looking for new and existing alliances and social movements in the city -- Rescaling knowledge of the state and citizenship around the city -- Revealing urban geographies of social reproduction -- Planning for social and environmental justice in the city -- 14.3 Final reflections and Conclusions -- Glossary. References -- Index -- EULA. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813813603321 |
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Jonas Andrew E. G
|
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| Chicester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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