Author: Peter Saunders
Publisher: 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 Saunders
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 Saunders
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience
Author: Simon Parker
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
New Urban Spaces
Author: Neil Brenner
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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 Political Economy and Social Theory
Author: Ray Forrest
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Urban Question
Urban Social Theory
Author: Michael Bounds
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive coverage of urban social theory within the history of social thought and addresses many of the contemporary debates.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive coverage of urban social theory within the history of social thought and addresses many of the contemporary debates.
The City and the Grassroots
Author: Manuel Castells
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520056176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520056176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political”
Author: Dan Webb
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Space, the City and Social Theory
Author: Fran Tonkiss
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.