Readings in urban theory /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996. |
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| Description: | viii, 447 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2412850 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Theories of Urban Development and their Implications for Policy and Planning / Susan S. Fainstein and Scott Campbell
- Pt. I. The Changing Urban and Regional System. 2. Bourgeois Utopias: Visions of Suburbia / Robert Fishman. 3. The Global City / Saskia Sassen. 4. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism / Manuel Castells. 5. The Economics of Postwar Regional Disparity / Ann R. Markusen. 6. Reading the Map: A Theory of Military-Industrial Places / Ann R. Markusen, Peter Hall, Scott Campbell and Sabina Deitrick. 7. The Changing World Economy and Urban Restructuring / Susan S. Fainstein
- Pt. II. Race and Urban Poverty. 8. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Hidden Agenda / William Julius Wilson. 9. Race, Class and Segregation: Discourses about African Americans / Norman Fainstein. 10. Toward Greater Racial Diversity in the Suburbs / W. Dennis Keating
- Pt. III. The Politics of Redevelopment, Public-Private Partnerships, and Gentrification. 11. Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City / Gregory D. Squires. 12. The City as a Growth Machine / John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch. 13. Gentrification, the Frontier, and the Restructuring of Urban Space / Neil Smith
- Pt. IV. The City and Contemporary Culture. 14. Voices of Decline / Robert A. Beauregard. 15. See You in Disneyland / Michael Sorkin. 16. Social Justice, Postmodernism, and the City / David Harvey.
