Author: Peter SaundersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134875118
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Social Theory and the Urban Question
Author: Peter SaundersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134875118
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Social Theory and the Urban Question
Author: Peter SaundersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135685916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Social Theory and the Urban Question offers a guide to, and a critical evaluation of key themes in contemporary urban social theory, as well as a re-examination of more traditional approaches in the light of recent developments and criticism. Dr Saunders discusses current theoretical positions in the context of the work of Marx, Weber and Durkheim. He suggests that later writers have often misunderstood or ignored the arguments of these 'founding fathers' of the urban question. Dr Saunders uses his final chapter to apply the lessons learned from a review of their work in order to develop a new framework for urban social and political analysis. This book was first published in 1981.
New Urban Spaces
Author: Neil BrennerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190627182
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Openings: the urban question as a scale question? -- Between fixity and motion: scaling the urban fabric -- Restructuring, rescaling and the urban question -- Global city formation and the rescaling of urbanization -- Cities and the political geographies of the "new" economy -- Competitive city-regionalism and the politics of scale -- Urban growth machines : but at what scale? -- A thousand layers: geographies of uneven development -- Planetary urbanization: mutations of the urban question -- Afterword: new spaces of urbanization
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience
Author: Simon ParkerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113454135X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For the first time Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies, and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe to one another. Both students and urban scholars will appreciate the critical way in which classical and contemporary debates on the nature of the city are presented. Extensive use is made throughout of documentary, literary and cultural sources to bring the different theoretical perspectives to life. Discussion points introduce and explain key concepts and intellectual histories in a jargon free manner. End of chapter further readings have also been annotated to encourage additional study.
The Urban Question
Author: Manuel CastellsUrban Social Theory
Author: Michael BoundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of urban social theory within the history of social thought. It's an accessible and comprehensive coverage of the major social theorists and schools.
Cities for People, Not for Profit
Author: Neil BrennerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136625046
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism. The contributors provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary urban restructuring, including the issues of neoliberalization, gentrification, colonization, "creative" cities, architecture and political power, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures and the ongoing struggles of "right to the city" movements. At the same time, the book explores the diverse interpretive frameworks – critical and otherwise – that are currently being used in academic discourse, in political struggles, and in everyday life to decipher contemporary urban transformations and contestations. The slogan, "cities for people, not for profit," sets into stark relief what the contributors view as a central political question involved in efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time. Drawing upon European and North American scholarship in sociology, politics, geography, urban planning and urban design, the book provides useful insights and perspectives for citizens, activists and intellectuals interested in exploring alternatives to contemporary forms of capitalist urbanization.
Urban Political Economy and Social Theory
Author: Ray ForrestPublisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Space, the City and Social Theory
Author: Fran TonkissPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745628257
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Taking a thematic approach, this book covers the main aspects of modern urban life taught on undergraduate courses. The key approaches to the city within contemporary social theory are assessed. Tonkiss adopts an international perspective, with examples drawn from places such as New York, Paris and Sydney.
Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political”
Author: Dan WebbPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351736469
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space. Because the city and urban space is so prominent in other critical disciplines, most notably, geography and sociology, a driving question of the book is: what kind of distinct contribution can political theory make to the already existing critical urban literature? The answer is to be found in what Webb calls the "properly political" approach to understanding political conflict as developed in the work of thinkers like Chantal Mouffe, Jodi Dean, and Slavoj Žižek. This "properly political" analysis is contrasted with and a curative to the predominant "ethical" or "post-political" understanding of the urban found in so much of the geographical and sociological critical urban theory literature. In order to illustrate this primary theoretical argument of the book, Webb suggests that "common property" is the most useful category for conceiving the city as a site of the "properly political." When the city and urban space are framed within this theoretical framework, critical urbanists are provided a powerful tool for understanding urban political struggles, in particular, anti-gentrification movements in the inner city.