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Set in 9.5/11.5 Minion by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Singapore ol 2010Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1_Materialities J Introducing Materialities 1 The Great Towns Friedrich Engels Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West William Cronon 3. The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis David Harvey 4 An Introduet Manuel Castells to the Information Age 5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form Allen J. Scott 6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities Ash Amin The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country Sujata Patel u 8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C, Heynen 9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies Alan Latham and Derek P, McCormack 40 49 60 86vi Contents Part II Mobilities 95 Introducing Mobilities 97 10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103 Georg Simmel 11 The Practice of Everyday Life ul Michel de Certeau 12. The Arcades Project 19 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 Héctor Manuel Lucera 15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138 Arjten 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 1 Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu Part Ill Division and Difference J _________149 Introducing Division and Difference vi 19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 77 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 aul 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City A/Genders Sophie Watson Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem George Chauncey Part IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 30 31 33 34 36 Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures The Public Realm Richard Sennett ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life Nancy N. Chen Contents vil 237 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284 Setha M. Low Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World Sharon Zukin City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London Judith R. Walkowitz Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality Franco Moretti Writing the City Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley Imagining the Modern Cit James Donald ight in Dark Spaces Part V Urban Politics and Planning 37 38 39 40 41 Introducing Urban Politics and Planning ‘The Growth of the City Ernest W. Burgess The City of Tomorrow and its Planning Le Corbusier ‘The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia James Holston Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy Anthony D. King Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis Edward W. Soja 365 374Contents 42 43 44 45 46 Index How to Study Urban Political Power 382 John Hull Mollenkopf Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391 John R. Logan and Harvey L. Mototch New Directions in Planning Theory 402 Susan S, Fainstein Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” 4ll Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore China's Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419 John Friedmann Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428 Fulong Wi and Jingxing Zhang 433Thrift, Nigel, extracts from “Driving in the city’, from Theory, Culture and Society, 21(4/5), pp. 41-S9. Copyright © 2004, Theory, Culture & Society Ltd. Reprinted by permission of SAGE and the author. Urry, John, extracts from “Connections”, from Environment and Planning D: Sociery and Space, 22(1), pp. 27-37. Copyright © 2004 by Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Reproduced by permission of the author and Pion Ltd. Walkowitz, Judith R., excerpts from City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London, pp. 15-24, plus notes. Copyright © 1992 by Judith R, Walkowitz, Reproduced by kind permis- sion of the University of Chicago Press and Little Brown & Co. Watson, Sophie,“City A/Genders’, from Engendering Social Policy, Sophie Watson and Lesley Doyal (eds.), Open University Press, pp. 53-9, 65-6. Copyright © 1999 by Sophie Watson. Reproduced with the Kind permission of the Open University Press. All rights reserved. Acknowledgments — xiii Wilson, William Julius, extracts from The Truly Disadvantaged, University of Chicago Press, 1987, © 1987 by University of Chicago Press. Reproduced by permissia of the University of Chicago Press. Wu, F and Zhang, J, “Planning the competitive region: the emergence of strategic development plan in ina’, Urban Affairs Review, 42(5),pp.714-15,716-19. Urban Afiairs Review, by Wu, F and Zhang, |Copyright (© 2007 by Sage Publications Inc. Journals. Reproduced with permission of Sage Publications Inc. Journals in the format Textbook via Copyright Clearance Center, Young, ris Marion, extracts from “The ideal of com- munity and the polities of difference’, from Social Theory and Practice, 12(1), pp. 1-26. © 1986 by Social Theory and Practice. Reprinted with permis- sion from the journal. Zukin, Sharon, excerpts from Landscapes of Power, University of California Press, 1991, pp. 195-225, 308-15, Copyright © 1991 by the Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the author and University of California Press