A compendium of specially commissioned pieces of text and illustrations, with contributions from many of the leading international names in urban culture, geography and sociology. It introduces students to a novel way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban life. Short entries, arranged alphabetically, capture moments of the city: these pieces evoke the city by drawing on many different kinds of evidence: from poetry to prose, from cartoons to paintings and a photo-essay, from angry rhetorical writings to eulogies, and from rigorous noisy analysis to quiet stories of city life....

Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the books range from cultural to economic to urban geography. The authors explore connections between political economy and geographic thought in each area, with the emphasis lying on the processes of material production and social reproduction.
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Two decades after the publication of the seminal Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley & Peter Haggett, this major collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the book ranges from cultural to economic and urban geography. The authors explore the connections between political economy and geographical thought in each area, with the emphasis lying on the processes of material...

Giving both a retrospective as well as a prospective take on modern cultural geography, this collection provides a range of diverse material. The volumes constitute both an historical resource, tracking the marking of the field, and a map of contemporary themes and obsessions.

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:

• introduces the rather dispersed discussion of non-representational theory to a wider audience
• provides the basis for an experimental rather than a representational approach to the social sciences and...

With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s.

This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of cultural economy.

• Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten years in the emerging field of cultural economy.
  
• Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main strands and history of the cultural economy approach.
  
• Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms culture or economy.
  
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This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of life.


They outline an innovative sociology of the city that scatters urban life along a series of sites and...

This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents

Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of cultural analysis of global capitalism that has long been needed - one that emphasizes the innovative energy of global capitalism. The book avoids stale denouncements and...

This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents

Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of cultural analysis of global capitalism that has long been needed - one that emphasizes the innovative energy of global capitalism. The book avoids stale denouncements and...