New Blackwell 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 The Blackwell City Reader (with Sophie Watson, second edition 2010). Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author  of City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997) and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995), Metropolis Now (1994), and The Blackwell City Reader (with Gary Bridge, second edition 2010), among other publications.

• List of Contributors xPreface xiiiGary Bridge and Sophie WatsonAcknowledgments xvPart I City Materialities 11 Reflections on Materialities 3Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 15Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis 26John Rennie Short4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century 38Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 48Amrita Shah6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis 57Matthew Gandy7 Objects and the City 66Harvey Molotch8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore 79Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings 96Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 108Peter Droege11 The New Military Urbanism 121Stephen Graham12 The City’s New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 134Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform 142Ray ForrestPart II City Mobilities 15514 Reflections on Mobilities 157Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson15 “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control 169Andrew Ross16 Transnationality and the City 179Nina Glick Schiller17 Migrants Making Technology Markets 193Tyler Rooker18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City 210Saskia Sassen19 Nomadic Cities 221David Pinder20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City 235Francis Dodsworth21 Disease and Infection in the City 245Simon Carter22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space 255Daniel J. Walkowitz23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space 265Brian LaddPart III City Affect 27524 Reflections on Affect 277Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City 288Steve Pile26 The Future of New York’s Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11 304Max Page27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China 317Stephanie Hemelryk Donald28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai’s Cinematic Hong Kong 327Christoph Lindner29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City 337Lesley Caldwell30 City Life and the Senses 347John Urry31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies 357AbdouMaliq Simone32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces 367Andrew HillPart IV City Publics and Cultures 37733 Reflections on Publics and Cultures 379Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson34 Reflections on the Public Realm 390Richard Sennett35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century? 398Michael Keith36 “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference 407Kurt Iveson and Ruth Fincher37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho 419Judith R. Walkowitz38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s 431Frank Mort39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City 442Rob Stone40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore 452Lily Kong41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City 463Setha Low42 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith 476John Paul Jones III43 Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle 488Benjamin Rossiter and Katherine GibsonPart V City Divisions and Differences 49944 Reflections on Division and Difference 501Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson45 The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu 511Mike Savage46 Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities 521Jenny Robinson and Sue Parnell47 Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City 532Jeremy Seekings48 Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary 547Ato Quayson49 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance 561Sharon Zukin50 Gentrification of the City 571Tom Slater51 The Homosexuality of Cities 586Julie Abraham 52 Gendering Urban Space 596Jessica Ellen Sewell53 Nights in the Global City 606 Sophie Body-GendrotPart VI City Politics and Planning 617 54 Reflections on Politics and Planning 619Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson55 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World 631Ash Amin56 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning 643Peter Marcuse57 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below 656Anthony Vidler58 Shaping Good Cities and Citizens 667Evelyn S. Ruppert59 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 679Edward W. Soja60 Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China’s Cities 690John Friedmann61 Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China’s Urbanism in the Making 701Fulong Wu62 Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City 713Roger Keil63 Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies 726Kevin Ward64 Making Up Global Urban Policies 738Allan Cochrane65 Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed? 747Patrick Le GalèsIndex 759

“This collection of 65 academic essays covers everything from the role of dance in shaping cities to race and class in South Africa to the application of military techniques to city planning … The destructive effects of global capital and neo-liberal politics are much explored. Throwing out striking insights and facts... [it offers] useful and necessary responses to significant changes in the world.” The Observer “This new volume is in six sections, each introduced by an editorial overview… The individual chapters range from theoretical politics and sociology to the practicalities of maintaining high rise housing. Films and novels provide examples in many sections. Sometimes a chapter can be a surprise … there is something new and something very familiar in each … Geographers and sociologists will get much from this book, and there is material for architects and politicians. There is also something in the book for the ordinary city dweller.” Reference Reviews “Of great interest to upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of urban studies, as well as those in urban planning, urban sociology, and urban geography ... Recommended." Choice