Introduction to cities how place and space shape human experience /
| Main Author: | Chen, Xiangming, 1955- |
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| Other Authors: | Orum, Anthony M., Paulsen, Krista E., ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA :
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,
2013.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxv, 382 pages) : illustrations. |
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Ebook Central (EBC)
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Part I Foundations 5 -- 1 Cities as places and spaces 6 -- Cities as places 9 -- Exploring further 1.1 11 -- Identity, community, and security 14 -- Places as the site of our identity 14 -- Places as the site of community 15 -- Places as sites of security 16 -- Studying the city 1.1 17 -- Human beings make and remake places 17 -- Place and space 20 -- Studying the city 1.2 21 -- Making the city better 1.1 24 -- Cities shape the fates of human beings 25 -- Cities and people 26 -- 2 Social theories of urban space and place: The early perspectives 28 -- Social and theoretical roots of modern urban theory 29 -- Studying the city 2.1 31 -- Ferdinand Tönnies: Community and society 32 -- Georg Simmel: The metropolis and mental life 33 -- Tönnies and Simmel: Further reflections 35 -- Exploring further 2.1 36 -- Chicago School of Sociology 38 -- City as social space 39 -- City, social change, and social order 40 -- Studying the city 2.2 42 -- Life in the city as a way of life 44 -- Making the city better 2.1 46 -- Early social theories of urban life 47 -- 3 Social theories of urban space and place: Perspectives in the post-World War II era 49 -- Theoretical descendents of Marx 50 -- Manuel Castells and the1 urban question 50 -- David Harvey: Injustice and inequality in the city 51 -- John Logan and Harvey Molotch: The city as a growth machine 53 -- Making the city better 3.1 54 -- Making the city better 3.2 56 -- Further reflections: Marx and the critique of modern cities 57 -- Return to place and the turn to culture 58 -- Jane Jacobs and the discovery of community in the modern metropolis 58 -- Studying the city 3.1 59 -- Sharon Zukin and the turn to culture 61 -- Exploring further 3.1 63 -- Going global: The 1980s and the creation of the global city 66 -- Evaluating theories of the city 69 -- 4 Methods and rules for the study of cities 72 -- First rules for doing a social science of cities 74 -- Rule of validity 74 -- Rule of reliability 76 -- Exploring further 4.1 77 -- Cities and the question of numbers 78 -- Studying the city 4.1 79 The city as a case study 80 -- City as the typical case 82 -- City as a prototypical case 85 -- Ethnographic and historical case studies 87 -- Ethnographic case studies 87 -- Studying the city 4.2 89 -- Historical case studies 90 -- From one to multiple cases 91 -- Studying the city 4.3 94 -- A last but very important rule on doing a good social science of cities: Fitting good theory to good methods 94 -- And what about insight? 95 -- Part II Changing Metropolis 99 -- 5 Metropolis and its expansion: Early insights and basic principles 100 -- Metropolitan growth: Basic features 102 -- Metropolis and its expansion 104 -- Center of the city 105 -- Zone of transition 106 -- Zone of commuters 106 -- Assessing the concentric zone theory 106 -- Natural areas of the city 107 -- Alternative views of the city 107 -- Studying the city 5.1 108 -- Mobility of people and groups in the metropolis 109 -- Social differences and migration in the metropolis 109 -- Exploring further 5.1 110 -- Migration and the expansion of the metropolis 113 -- Metropolitan center and its links to the hinterlands 115 -- Human agents and social institutions in the expansion of the metropolis 116 -- Studying the city 5.2 117 -- Making the city better 5.1 120 -- Urban growth, institutions, and human agents 121 -- 6 Origins and development of suburbs 123 -- What is a suburb? Definitions and variations 125 -- Alternative suburban forms 127 -- A brief history of suburban development 129 -- Original suburbs 129 -- Culture and the demand for suburban living 131 -- Making the city better 6.1 133 -- Exploring further 6.1 134 -- Early suburban diversity 135 -- Transportation technologies and suburban expansion 136 -- Making the city better 6.2 139 -- Role of policy in suburban expansion 140 -- Mass production of US suburbs 142 -- Changes and challenges in contemporary suburbs 144 -- Privatization and gated communities 144 -- Varied fates of older suburbs 147 -- Suburbs as places 149 -- Studying the city 6.1 151 -- 7 Changing metropolitan landscapes after World War II 154 -- Los Angeles: The prototype of the postwar metropolis 156 -- Exploring further 7.1 160 -- Changing metropolitan order 162 -- Decline -- of older industrial cities 162 -- Rise of the postindustrial/postmodern metropolitan regions 163 -- Importance of transportation, again 164 -- Remaking of places and spaces: The profound human and political consequences 165 -- Making the city better 7.1 166 -- Emerging global economy: A brief overview 168 -- Studying the city 7.1 171 -- People, place, and space in a global world 173 -- Part III Metropolis and Social Inequalities 177 -- 8 Early metropolis as a place of inequality 178 -- Colonial cities as unequal places 180 -- Early urban diversity 182 -- Cities of immigrants 184 -- Immigrant lives: New York's Five Points 185 -- Studying the city 8.1 189 -- Five Points case in context 190 -- Early reform and intervention efforts 193 -- Making the American ghetto 193 -- Integrated beginnings 193 -- Making the city better 8.1 194 -- New neighbors, new tensions 195 -- Perpetuation and implications of black ghettos 196 -- Studying the city 8.2 197 -- Exploring further 8.1 199 -- Significance of urban diversity and inequality 201 -- 9 Inequality and diversity in the post-World War II metropolis 204 -- Inequality and the metropolis 205 -- Poverty and race 205 -- Exploring further 9.1 207 -- Poverty and homelessness 209 -- Making the city better 9.1 211 -- Gentrification and the remaking of the metropolis 212 -- Exploring further 9.2 214 -- Studying the city 9.1 216 -- Social diversity and the transformed metropolis 217 -- New immigration and the transformation of the metropolis 217 -- Europe 217 -- United States and Canada 219 -- Reconstructing the contemporary metropolis: New ethnic enclaves 221 -- Studying the city 9.2 224 -- Other dimensions of urban diversity 226 -- Making the city better 9.2 227 -- Western metropolis in flux 228 -- Part IV Metropolis in the Developing World 231 -- 10 Urbanization and urban places in developing-country cities 232 -- Urbanization: The basic path and its impact on place 233 -- Developing-country cities in historical perspective 235 -- Studying the city 10.1 236 -- Basic dimensions of urbanization 237 -- Urban hierarchy 237 -- Urban primacy 239 -- Over-urbanization versus under-urbanization 239 -- Studying the city 10.2 241 -- Natural increase and in-migration 242 -- From process and system to place 243 -- A basic profile with multiple wrinkles 243 -- Megacities as places: Opportunities and challenges 245 -- Size and density 245 -- Creating wealth and sustaining poverty 246 -- Exploring further 10.1 250 -- Making the city better 10.1 251 -- Developing megacity as a lived place 252 -- Making the city better 10.2 255 -- Governing the megacities 255 -- Studying the city 10.3 256 -- Reassessing the developing city 258 -- 11 Cities in the global economy 261 -- Cities in a globalizing world: Theoretical background 262 -- Emerging cities in the global economy 264 -- Yiwu, China 264 -- Rajarhat, India 265 -- Further Reflections on Yiwu 268 -- Re-emerging cities in the global economy 269 -- Berlin, Germany: A once-prosperous, then challenged, and now re-emerging local culture 269 -- Shanghai, China: Local change in a rising renaissance city 271 -- Moving more deeply into the global economy 275 -- Dongguan, China: A place transformed from a rural township into a global factory-city 275 -- Studying the city 11.1 278 -- Dubai, United Arab Emirates: From desert to urban miracle to mirage 279 -- Cities in a fully networked global economy 281 -- Regional dimension and mediation of cities 281 -- Becoming globally networked 284 -- Exploring further 11.1 285 -- Interdependence between cities and the global economy 287 -- Studying the city 11.2 288 -- Systematic constraint and individual flexibility 289 -- Global restructuring of cities 290 -- Making the city better 11.1 291 -- Part V Challenges of Today and the Metropolis Of The Future 295 -- 12 Urban environments and sustainability 296 -- Making use of nature 297 -- Natural attributes and urban development 297 -- Interpreting and manipulating nature 298 -- Studying the city 12.1 301 -- Inviting "disaster" 302 -- Why rebuild? 303 -- Urban environments 307 -- Local environmental concerns 308 -- Making the city better 12.1 308 -- Environment and inequality 310 -- Making the city better 12.2 311 -- Global environmental concerns 312 -- Urbanization's environmental impacts 313 -- Cities and climate change 313 -- Addressing environmental issues: Toward sustainability 315 -- Exploring further 12.1 317 -- 13 Remaking and future of cities 321 -- Between place and space: Reinforcing a theoretical vision 322 -- Remaking cities from above and at critical moments 324 -- Crisis of Detroit 324 -- Remaking of Detroit 326 -- Making the city better 13.1 327 -- Place-remaking on a larger scale 328 -- Daily place-remaking from below 330 -- Remaking neighborhoods and communities 331 -- Remaking of Brooklyn, New York 331 -- From Detroit and New York to China and Shanghai -- again 332 -- Remaking cities for the future 334 -- Scaling up and looking forward 334 -- Studying the city 13.1. 335 -- China and India scenarios and their wider implications 336 -- Cities of the future and the future of cities 340 -- Making the city better 13.2 341 -- Making the city better 13.3 344 -- Exploring further 13.1 346 -- A final look at the twenty-first-century city 347. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Available via World Wide Web. Users at some libraries may be required to establish an individual no-charge EBC account, and log in to access the full text. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxv, 382 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: |
Users at some libraries may be required to establish an individual no-charge EBC account, and log in to access the full text. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781118261293 1118261291 |