Urban Theory : A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century

Name: Urban Theory
Brand: SAGE Publications Ltd
SKU: 9781446294529
Price: 8450 KES
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ISBN: 9781446294529

by Alan Harding , Talja Blokland

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1446294528

ISBN-13 9781446294529

Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd

Imprint Sage Publications Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 13th, 2014

Print length 312 Pages

Weight 534 grams

Dimensions 24.20 x 17.00 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Textbook, coursework Urban communities / city life Urban communities Human geography Urban & municipal planning Urban and municipal planning and policy

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This interdisciplinary introduction to urban theory explains how the concepts that help us understand the contemporary urban experience have developed and been applied. It discusses a wide range of work - within political science, economics, g

What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains:

Relations between urban theory and modernity in key ideas of the Chicago School, spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and ‘radical' approaches like Marxism
Cities and the transition to informational economies, globalization, urban growth machine and urban regime theory, the city as an "actor"
Spatial expressions of inequality and key ideas like segregation, ghettoization, suburbanization, gentrification
Socio-cultural spatial expressions of difference and key concepts like gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and "culturalist" perspectives on identity, lifestyle, subculture
How cities should be understood as intersections of horizontal and vertical – of coinciding resources, positions, locations, influencing how we make and understand urban experiences.

Critical, interdisciplinary and pedagogically informed - with opening summaries, boxes, questions for discussion and guided further reading - Urban Theory: A Critical Introduction to Power, Cities and Urbanism in the 21st Century provides the tools for any student of the city to understand, even to change, our own urban experiences.

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