The Blackwell City Reader

?This new edition covers so much terrain of the urban scholarship that it is truly a very comprehensive and interdisciplinary reader for any course on cities and urban studies.? ?Xiangming Chen, Trinity College ?A rich and varied collection of important articles on cities. Selections range from older classic pieces to more recent insights, and the book provides a nice mix of European and American views of cities, whilst including writings about other areas of the world, especially China. Altogether this is an excellent and exciting collection of major writings.? ?Anthony M. Orum, University of Illinois ?The second edition of The Blackwell City Reader is even better than the first ? and that was a milestone. The Reader covers the full spectrum of approaches to the city concisely but with real authority. As a result, it is a vital introduction to thinking about cities in a time when global problems and urban problems have become effectively interchangeable.? ?Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick

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 ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I Materialities 3 Introducing Materialities 5 1 The Great Towns 11 Friedrich Engels 2 Natures Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17 William Cronon 3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32 David Harvey 4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40 Manuel Castells 5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49 Allen J. Scott 6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60 Ash Amin 7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72 Sujata Patel 8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79 Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen 9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86 Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack Part II Mobilities 95 Introducing Mobilities 97 10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103 Georg Simmel 11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111 Michel de Certeau 12 The Arcades Project 119 Walter Benjamin 13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126 Saskia Sassen 14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133 Michael Dear and Hctor Manuel Lucero 15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138 Arjun Appadurai 16 Connections 144 John Urry 17 Driving in the City 152 Nigel Thrift 18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159 Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu Part III Division and Difference 169 Introducing Division and Difference 171 19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177 Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton 20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186 William Julius Wilson 21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193 Mike Davis 22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201 Neil Smith 23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the Purely Atomic Individual 211 Don Mitchell 24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221 Michel Foucault 25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228 Iris Marion Young 26 City A/Genders 237 Sophie Watson 27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243 George Chauncey Part IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253 Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 255 28 The Public Realm 261 Richard Sennett 29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273 Jane Jacobs 30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278 Nancy N. Chen 31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284 Setha M. Low 32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293 Sharon Zukin 33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303 Judith R. Walkowitz 34 Homo Palpitans: Balzacs Novels and Urban Personality 311 Franco Moretti 35 Writing the City 317 Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley 36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323 James Donald Part V Urban Politics and Planning 331 Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 333 37 The Growth of the City 339 Ernest W. Burgess 38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345 Le Corbusier 39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Braslia 355 James Holston 40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365 Anthony D. King 41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374 Edward W. Soja 42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382 John Hull Mollenkopf 43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391 John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch 44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402 Susan S. Fainstein 45 Cities and the Geographies of Actually Existing Neoliberalism 411 Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore 46 Chinas Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419 John Friedmann 47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428 Fulong Wu and Jingxing