Unsettling Cities: Movement/Settlement

ISBN-13: 9780415200714 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 375 str.

John Allen; Michael Pryke; Doreen B. Massey

Opis

In an age of expansive global networks, huge migration flows, and rapid transnational connections, cities are increasingly the focus of movement and change. There is a real sense in which cities are the crucible of the new, where cultures, people and environments combine in various settled and often less settled ways. This study offers a way of understanding the global nature of cities, where their very openness has served to shape their dynamism and character. Based on the assumption that cities cannot be understood apart from one another and the wider relationships which bind them, the book explores the mix of proximity and distance, community and difference, even the natural connections, which make up the rich and diverse texture of city life. Within this understanding, the contributors show how the changing fortunes of cities and the mix of different times and spaces within them, are related directly to the power and influence of the global networks which touch them.

Recenzje

"Formidable yet accessible, Unsettling Cities succeeds on almost every level. It stands complete in its own right, regardless of what power it draws from its integration with the two companion texts. the movement/stability frame of reference is compelling and sustained, with a cohesiveness not easily attained in edited books" Environment and Planning B 1999 Vol. 26

"Anyone interested in a fresh look at contemporary urban geography must read this work of academic and pedagogic excellence. I wish the texts available when I read urban geography for the first time over 20 years ago had been as exciting and enthusiastically as this one" Paul Bull, Dept Geog, birkbeck College for Urban Studies Vol 37, no.2

'Overall this text ought to become a standard teaching item and is a model example of how to display and convey complex ideas to students.' - Rob Imrie, Dept Geog, Royal Holloway University London for International Planning Studies Vol 6, No 1, 2001

Spis treści

1. Cities of Connection and Disconnection Ash Amin and Steve Graham 2. Moving Cities Kerry Hamilton and Susan Hoyle 3. City Life and Difference: negotiating diversity Linda McDowell 4. Cities and Natures Steve Hinchliffe 5. Cities of Power and Influence John Allen 6. Cities of Neo-liberalism Michael Pryke 7. Cities and Economic Change Nigel Thrift 8. On Openness and the City conclusion John Allen, Doreen Massey and Michael Pryke.

O autorze

John Allen is Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at The Open University. His recent publictions include A Shrinking World? (1995, co-edited with Chris Hamnett) and Rethinking the Region (1998, with Doreen Masssey and Alan Cochrane)
Doreen Massey is Professor of Geography at The Open University. She is co-founder and joint editor of Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Her recent books include Spatial Divisions of Labour (2nd Ed 1995) and Space, Place and Gender (1994).
Michael Pryke is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. He has published a number of articles