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Urban Theory - A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century (Paperback)
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Urban Theory - A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century (Paperback)
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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 - the
foundational concept in urban studies - in key ideas of the Chicago
School, in spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and
'radical' approaches like Marxism Cities and the transition from
industrial to informational economies, globalization, the
importnace of urban growth machine and urban regime theory, the
city as an "actor" Spatial expressions of inequality - understood
horizontally and vertically - and key ideas like segregation,
ghettoization, suburbanization, gentrification, and "neighbourhood
effects" Socio-cultural spatial expressions of difference and key
concepts like gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, public
space; "culturalist" perspectives on identity, lifestyle,
subculture How cities should be understood as intersections of
horizontal and vertical - of coinciding resources, positions,
locations; of different constellations of race, class, gender,
ethnicity, sexuality, and age, 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.
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