Blackwell City Reader

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 ixAcknowledgments xIntroduction 1Part I Materialities 3Introducing Materialities 51 The Great Towns 11Friedrich Engels2 Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17William Cronon3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32David Harvey4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40Manuel Castells5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49Allen J. Scott6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60Ash Amin7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72Sujata Patel8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormackPart II Mobilities 95Introducing Mobilities 9710 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103Georg Simmel11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111Michel de Certeau12 The Arcades Project 119Walter Benjamin13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126Saskia Sassen14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138Arjun Appadurai16 Connections 144John Urry17 Driving in the City 152Nigel Thrift18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi ZhuPart III Division and Difference 169Introducing Division and Difference 17119 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186William Julius Wilson21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193Mike Davis22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201Neil Smith23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the “Purely Atomic” Individual 211Don Mitchell24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221Michel Foucault25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228Iris Marion Young26 City A/Genders 237Sophie Watson27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243George ChaunceyPart IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 25528 The Public Realm 261Richard Sennett29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273Jane Jacobs30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278Nancy N. Chen31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284Setha M. Low32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293Sharon Zukin33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303Judith R. Walkowitz34 Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality 311Franco Moretti35 Writing the City 317Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323James DonaldPart V Urban Politics and Planning 331Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 33337 The Growth of the City 339Ernest W. Burgess38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345Le Corbusier39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília 355James Holston40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365Anthony D. King41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374Edward W. Soja42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382John Hull Mollenkopf43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402Susan S. Fainstein45 Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” 411Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore46 China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419John Friedmann47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428Fulong Wu and Jingxing ZhangIndex 433