Understanding the City

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He undertook research in Calcutta before completing his doctorate on Bangladeshi community politics in London's East End. He directed the Wandsworth local/global study and his previous publications include The Politics of Community (1989), Living the Global City (1997), and Placing London (2000). He is currently directing a research project on Methodists in the global city and collaborating on an ESRC-funded program on links between Britain and Bangladesh. Christopher Mele is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City (2000). His current research is a study of the influence of historical patterns of race and class upon contemporary urban growth and development along the southeastern coast of the United States.

• List of Illustrations viiiList of Tables ixList of Contributors xSeries Editors’ Preface xvPreface xviiPart I: Introduction 11 Understanding the City 3John Eade and Christopher MelePart II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City 252 Rescripting Cities with Difference 27Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs, and Kay Anderson3 The Public City 49Sophie Watson4 Social Justice and the South African City 66David M. Smith5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States 82Sophie Body-GendrotPart III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development 1076 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global 109Michael Peter Smith7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 131Peter Marcuse8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development 159Mark GottdienerPart IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe 1819 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience 183Chris Pickvance10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond 204Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia 222J. S. EadesPart V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East 24512 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore 247Smriti Srinivas13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power 278Shlomo Hasson14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements 305Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana BrittsPart VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States 33715 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development 339Michael Indergaard16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space 363Alexander J. Reichl17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies 379Leonard Nevarez18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood 397Jan LinIndex 419

"Many anthologies on the city exist, but only a few contain both cutting-edge theoretical essays and rich empirical studies. The latter focus on cities outside the Western urban canon and will make Understanding the City even more attractive to urban scholars." Professor R. Beauregard, New School UniversityUnderstanding the city is an engaging read for those grappling with new theoretical and conceptual questions about how cities function.....the essays in this book provide an excellent foundation for new levels of discourse on urban enviroments and city life." Area