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Urban Theory and the Urban Experience - Encountering the City (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Urban Theory and the Urban Experience - Encountering the City (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and
contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the
intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged
debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe
one another. From the foundations of modern urban theory in the
work of Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebbvre to the writings of
contemporary urban theorists such as David Harvey and Manuel
Castells and the Los Angeles school of urbanism, Urban Theory and
the Urban Experience traces the key developments in the idea of the
city over more than a century. Individual chapters explore
investigative studies of the great metropolis from Charles Booth to
the contemporary urban research of William J. Wilson, along with
alternative approaches to the industrial city, ranging from the
Garden City Movement to 'the new urbanism'. The volume also
considers the impact of new information and communication
technologies, and the growing trend towards disaggregated urban
networks, all of which raise important questions about viability
and physical and social identity of the conventional townscape.
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience concludes with a rallying cry
for a more holistic and integrated approach to the urban question
in theory and in practice if the rich potent. For the benefit of
students and tutors, frequent question points encourage exploration
of key themes, and annotated further readings provide follow-up
sources for the issues raised in each chapter. The book will be of
interest to students, scholars, practitioners and all those who
wish to learn more about why the urban has become the dominant
social, economic and cultural form of the twenty-first century
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