Urban Theory : A Critical Assessment 2nd Edition
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- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-13: 9781137604729
- Pages: 296
- Binding: Hard Binding
- Year of Pub / Reprint Year: 2016
Description
About The Book
This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory
Table OF Contents
Introduction
PART I: THEORIZING THE CITY IN TIME
1. Theorizing the Premodern City
2. Theorizing the Modern City
3. Theorizing the Postmodern City
PART II: THEORIZING THE CITY IN SPACE
The City as Network
5. The Economic City
6. The City of Difference
7. The Political City
8. The Everyday City
9. The City and Nature
10. Urban Imaginaries
11. Marketing the City
12. The Future of Urban Theory: Directions and Intersections
About the Author
John Rennie Short is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County,
USA.