Name: The City Reader von Richard T. LeGates (San Francisco State University, USA)
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The City Reader Zusammenfassung

The City Reader Richard T. LeGates (San Francisco State University, USA)

The fifth edition of the highly successful City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new contributions by experts including Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry, Daphne Spain, Nigel Taylor, Samuel Bass Warner, and others - some of which have been newly written exclusively for The City Reader. Classic writings from Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Louis Wirth, meet the best contemporary writings of Sir Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Kenneth Jackson.

This edition of The City Reader has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as sustainable urban development, climate change, globalization, and the impact of technology on cities. The plate sections have been extensively revised and expanded and a new plate section on global cities has been added.

The anthology features general and section introductions and introductions to the selected articles. New to the fifth edition is a bibliography listing over 100 of the top books for those studying Cities.

The City Reader Bewertungen

LeGates and Stout have crafted an introductory text aimed at students who will encounter many of the writers and writings for the first time (page 3). They introduce the field in a prologue entitled How to Study Cities that offers guidance on where to find courses on cities within universities, on the differing views students will encounter across disciplines, on the utility of theory versus applied research and practical knowledge, on the varied methods used to study cities, and on the field's key organizations and journals. The authors guide the reader through the volume by offering introductory essays for each major section and short introductions to each selection. The section introductions raise larger questions students need to bear in mind, and also link current discussions to historical issues. Together these introductions act as a sort of connective tissue for the volume as a whole, pointing out recurrent themes and helping us to see current problems in historical context. - Elizabeth J. Mueller, University of Texas at Austin

Über Richard T. LeGates (San Francisco State University, USA)

Richard T. LeGates is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at San Francisco State University. Frederic Stout is Lecturer in Urban Studies at Stanford University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The Evolution of Cities Introduction 1. Kingsley Davis The Urbanization of the Human Population 2. V. Gordon Childe, The Urban Revolution 3. H.D.F. Kitto The Polis 4. Frederick Engels The Great Towns 5. Samuel Bass Warner U.S. Urban History 6. Kenneth T. Jackson The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America 7. Robert Fishman Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb Plate Section 1: The Evolution of Cities Part 2: Urban Culture and Society Introduction 8. Lewis Mumford What is a City? 9. Louis Wirth Urbanism as a Way of Life 10. Jane Jacobs The Use of Sidewalks: Safety 11. W.E.B. Du Bois The Negro Problems of Philadelphia, The Question of Earning a Living, and Color Prejudice 12. William Julius Wilson From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos 13. Elijah Anderson Decent and Street Families 14. Robert D. Putnam Bowling Alone 15. Richard Florida The Creative Class 16. Frederic Stout Visions of a New Reality: The City and the Emergence of Modern Visual Culture Plate Section 2: Visions of a New Reality Part 3: Urban Space Introduction 17. Ernest W. Burgess The Growth of the City 18. Michael Dear The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An Intellectual History 19. Daphne Spain What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles 20. Ali Madanipour Social Exclusion and Space 21. Mike Davis Fortress L.A. 22. J.B. Jackson The Almost Perfect Town 23. Robert Bruegmann The Causes of Sprawl Part 4: Urban Politics, Governance and Economics Introduction 24. David Harvey, Contested Cities: Social Processes and Spatial Form 25. Sherry Arnstein A Ladder of Citizen Participation 26. Harvey Molotch The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place 27. James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling Broken Windows 28. Wilbur Thompson The City as Distorted Price System 29. Michael Porter The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City 30. Myron Orfield, Metropolitics Plate Section 3: Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban Space Part 5: Urban Planning History and Visions Introduction 31. Frederick Law Olmsted Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns 32. Ebenezer Howard Author's Introduction and The Town-Country Magnet 33. Le Corbusier A Contemporary City 34. Frank Lloyd Wright Broadacre City: A New Community Plan 35. World Commission on Environment & Development Towards Sustainable Development 36. Congress of the New Urbanism Charter of the New Urbanism 37. Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton Designing the Region and Designing the Region is Designing the Neighborhood Part 6: Urban Planning Thoery and Practice Introduction 38. Peter Hall The City of Theory 39. Nigel Taylor Anglo-American Town Planning Theory Since 1945: Three Significant Developments but no Paradigm Shifts 40. Edward J. Kaiser and David Godschalk Twentieth-Century Land Use Planning 41. John Forester Planning in the Face of Conflict 42. Paul Davidoff Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning 43. Timothy Beatley Planning for Sustainability in European Cities 44. Stephen Wheeler, Urban Planning and Global Climate Change Part 7: Perspectives on Urban Design Introduction 45. Camillo Sitte Author's Introduction, The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares, and The Enclosed Character of the Public Square 46. Clarence Perry The Neighborhood Unit 47. Kevin Lynch The City Image and Its Elements 48. William H. Whyte The Design of Spaces 49. Allan Jacobs & Donald Appleyard Toward an Urban Design Manifesto 50. Jan Gehl Three Types of Outdoor Activities, Life Between Buildings, and Outdoor Activities and the Quality of Outdoor Space Plate Section 4: Urban Planning and Urban Design Part 8: Cities in a Global Society Introduction 51. Melvin Webber The Post City Age 52. Saskia Sassen The Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Cities 53. Jonathan v. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith, and Peter J. Taylor, World City Network 54. Manuel Castells The Space of Flows 55. UN Habitat The Challenge of Slums 56. Tingwei Zhang, Chinese Cities in a Global Society 57. Neil Brenner and Roger Keil The Globalization Debates Plate Section 5: Cities in a Global Society

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GOR005478799

ISBN 13

9780415556651

ISBN 10

0415556651

Titel

The City Reader Richard T. LeGates (San Francisco State University, USA)

Autor

Richard T. LeGates (San Francisco State University, USA)

Serien

Routledge Urban Reader Series

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Datum

20110112

Anzahl der Seiten

704

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