Blokland Talja - Urban Theory A Critical Introduction To Power Cities And Urbanism In The 21st Century - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities not just between cities but within cities in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains: Relations between urban theory and modernity in key ideas of the Chicago School spatial analysis humanistic urban geography and radical approaches like Marxism Cities and the transition to informational economies globalization urban growth machine and urban regime theory the city as an actor Spatial expressions of inequality and key ideas like segregation ghettoization suburbanization gentrification Socio - cultural spatial expressions of difference and key concepts like gender sexuality race ethnicity and culturalist perspectives on identity lifestyle subculture How cities should be understood as intersections of horizontal and vertical of coinciding resources positions locations influencing how we make and understand urban experiences. Critical interdisciplinary and pedagogically informed - with opening summaries boxes questions for discussion and guided further reading - Urban Theory: A Critical Introduction to Power Cities and Urbanism in the 21st Century provides the tools for any student of the city to understand even to change our own urban experiences.
Title: Urban Theory A Critical Introduction To Power Cities And Urbanism In The 21st Century
Author(s): Blokland Talja
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781446294529
Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2014
Category: Urban & Municipal Planning