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Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities.Includes new sections of materialities and mobilities to capture the most recent debates The most international reader of its kind, including extensive coverage of urban issues in Asia, China, and India Combines theoretical approaches with a wide range of geographical case studies Organized to be used as a stand-alone text or alongside Blackwell's A Companion to the City

Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005) and co-editor of Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and A Companion to the City (with Sophie Watson, 2000). Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of, among other publications, City Publics: The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Markets as Sites for Social Interaction: Spaces of Diversity (with David Studdert, 2006), and Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (with Peter Murphy, 1997), and co-editor (with Katherine Gibson) of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995) and Metropolis Now (1994).

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Materialities	p. 3
Introducing Materialities	p. 5
The Great Towns	p. 11
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West	p. 17
The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis	p. 32
An Introduction to the Information Age	p. 40
Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form	p. 49
The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities	p. 60
The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country	p. 72
Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale	p. 79
Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies	p. 86
Mobilities	p. 95
Introducing Mobilities	p. 97
The Metropolis and Mental Life	p. 103
The Practice of Everyday Life	p. 111
The Arcades Project	p. 119
The Global City: Introducing a Concept	p. 126
Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California	p. 133
Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger	p. 138
Connections	p. 144
Driving in the City	p. 152
Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor	p. 159
Division and Difference	p. 169
Introducing Division and Difference	p. 171
The Continuing Causes of Segregation	p. 177
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy	p. 186
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles	p. 193
After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City	p. 201
The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the "Purely Atomic" Individual	p. 211
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison	p. 221
The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference	p. 228
City A/Genders	p. 237
Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem	p. 243
Urban Publics and Urban Cultures	p. 253
Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures	p. 255
The Public Realm	p. 261
The Death and Life of Great American Cities	p. 273
China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life	p. 278
Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica	p. 284
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World	p. 293
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London	p. 303
Homo Palpitans: Balzac's Novels and Urban Personality	p. 311
Writing the City	p. 317
Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces	p. 323
Urban Politics and Planning	p. 331
Introducing Urban Politics and Planning	p. 333
The Growth of the City	p. 339
The City of Tomorrow and its Planning	p. 345
The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília	p. 355
Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy	p. 365
Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis	p. 374
How to Study Urban Political Power	p. 382
Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place	p. 391
New Directions in Planning Theory	p. 402
Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism"	p. 411
China's Urban Transition: Backward into the Future	p. 419
Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China	p. 428
Index	p. 433
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