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 |
| Published: |
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA :
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,
2013.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxv, 382 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Ebook Central (EBC)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.