Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment

ISBN-13: 9781137382641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 296 str.

Professor John Rennie Short

Opis

This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: THEORIZING THE CITY IN TIME 1. Theorizing The Premodern City 2. Theorizing The Modern City 3. Theorizing The Postmodern City PART II: THEORIZING THE CITY IN SPACE 4. The City As Network 5. The Economic City 6. The City Of Difference 7. The Political City 8. The Everyday City 9. The City And Nature 10. Urban Imaginaries 11. Marketing The City 12. The Future Of Urban Theory: Directions And Intersections.

O autorze

John Rennie Short is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.