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Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another.From the foundations of modern urban theory in the work of Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebbvre to the writings of contemporary urban theorists such as David Harvey and Manuel Castells and the Los Angeles school of urbanism, Urban Theory and the Urban Experience traces the key developments in the idea of the city over more than a century. Individual chapters explore investigative studies of the great metropolis from Charles Booth to the contemporary urban research of William J. Wilson, along with alternative approaches to the industrial city, ranging from the Garden City Movement to ‘the new urbanism'.The volume also considers the impact of new information and communication technologies, and the growing trend towards disaggregated urban networks, all of which raise important questions about viability and physical and social identity of the conventional townscape. Urban Theory and the Urban Experience concludes with a rallying cry for a more holistic and integrated approach to the urban question in theory and in practice if the rich potent.For the benefit of students and tutors, frequent question points encourage exploration of key themes, and annotated further readings provide follow-up sources for the issues raised in each chapter. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, practitioners and all those who wish to learn more about why the urban has become the dominant social, economic and cultural form of the twenty-first century

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice.The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, political studies, planning, and urban studies.

Emphasising the social, critical and situated dimensions of the urban, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents a unique collection of theoretical and empirical perspectives on urban sociology. Bringing together expert contributors from across the world, it provides a rich overview and research agenda for contemporary urban sociological scholarship.Chapters highlight the macro-historical context of the urban, and conduct a critical and reflexive review of mainstream theories and concepts. They examine key debates in urban sociology, analysing varied approaches to gentrification, neighbourhood effects, race and gender. Looking beyond the dominant anglophone academic sphere, contributors explore case studies from diverse world regions and local settings. Ultimately, the Research Handbook clarifies and advances the wide range of contemporary sociological approaches to urban studies.The Research Handbook on Urban Sociology will prove to be a vital read for researchers and students across sociology, geography, anthropology, urban planning and design, economics and political science. It will also be of great benefit to practitioners and policy-makers seeking to better understand the urban space.

Dieses Handbuch präsentiert unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf Landschaft und zeigt die Disziplinen mit ihren Landschaftsverständnissen auf. Ziel ist es, einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Landschaftsforschung zu geben und gleichzeitig die Zukunft der Landschaftsforschung zu beleuchten. Die Autor•innen sind Expert•innen auf ihren Gebieten und im deutschen Sprachraum einschlägig bekannt.

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social space (the distribution of capital in its different forms), and physical space (the built environment). On this reading, Bourdieu's topological sociology gives us the tools both to energize and also to challenge the canon of urban studies and to redraw their theoretical landscape. Compact and incisive, Bourdieu in the City will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, and social theory.

Dieses Buch beschreibt, wie der fragile und langwierige Prozess der Entwicklung einer Stadtmarke umsichtig gestaltet werden kann. Notwendige Hintergründe werden erläutert, von zahlreichen Erfahrungen wird berichtet, zielführendes Stadtmarkenmachen wird vielfältig inspiriert.Der Traum jeder Markenmacher•in: eine Stadt zu einer starken Stadtmarke – vielleicht sogar zu einem Mythos – zu entwickeln. Dabei bleibt die Mythenbildung ein Kuriosum. Erfolgt sie zielgerichtet, existieren einschlägige Erfolgsrezepte, können die Verantwortlichen identifiziert werden? Vor allem: Lässt sich der Prozess nachbilden? Wie gehen Markenmacher•innen mit der Komplexität der Phänomene Stadt und Stadtmarke handwerklich um? Wie verleihen sie dem mühevollen Prozess der Entstehung einer Stadtmarke vernünftige Erfolgsaussichten? Wie begegnen Markenmacher•innen der häufig beißenden Kritik von außen und den nagenden Selbstzweifeln? Erfolgreiche Stadtbilder entspringen den Irrungen und Wirrungen komplexer und mitunter zufälliger Prozesse. Im Zuge des globalen Städtewettbewerbs wird dieser evolutionäre Prozess mit den Errungenschaften des Handwerks des Markenmachens angereichert. Dies ist noch keine Erfolgsgarantie. Der Erfolg hängt von zahlreichen Voraussetzungen ab, die ausführlich thematisiert werden. Abschließend werden Handwerksregeln für gutes und zugleich sensibles Stadtmarkenmachen genannt.

In Built Design and the Rhetoric of Cities, Kathleen M. Vandenberg explores how cities are imagined, designed, and constructed and analyzes the impact of built design on the movement, behavior, and experience of people in urban areas. Vandenberg argues that becoming attuned to the built environments of cities is critical to understanding and planning for how they might be reshaped to confront the challenges of this century, which include rapid urbanization, the global rise in slums, climate change, and increasing urban air pollution. With a focus on London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Washington, DC, this book invites readers to consider how the built environment influences mobility, the availability of green space, placemaking, and public memory. Street-level analysis is merged with a humanistic perspective that considers the impact of such urban elements as facades, cycle paths, sidewalks, lighting, trees, seating, parks, and monuments on the human experience of cities. By design, cities speak—this book offers an understanding of their rhetoric.

With debates about the decriminalization of drugs on the rise, an exploration of drug maps is long overdue. Narcotic Cities traces the complex entanglements of drugs, institutions, activities, and the way they are represented with spaces and places, shedding new light on our cities. Through the medium of graphic essays, this book explores urban stories, as well as the histories, policies, communities, digital spaces, and pleasures associated with drugs, gathering together more than forty contributors working with Geographic Information Systems, hand drawings, satellite images, and memories. By experimenting with different graphic languages, this volume assembles a rich mosaic of multi-scalar urban perspectives on drugs, sharing little-known knowledge as well as reflections on the pitfalls, omissions, and failures of drug cartographies.

Since the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society – but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, a public space, a social space, an economic space or a combination of these? The focus on automotive travel over the past century has changed the role of streets in cities. This has degraded the quality of urban life and contributed to public health issues. This book offers a unique look at streets as locations that can evolve to support the economic, social, cultural and natural aspects of cities. Using modern urban design examples, it challenges readers to focus not only on the livability and travel benefits of roads, but on how the power of streets can be harnessed. In so doing, it shapes more dynamic spaces for walking, biking and living, and aims to stimulate urban vitality and community regeneration, encouraging policymakers and individuals to make changes in their own communities.

This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book's overall argument or premise, the reader is taken in Part I through a range of contemporary critical and political understandings of urban securitizing. This is followed by an historical urban landscape of emerging liberalism and neo-liberalism, in nineteenth-century Britain and twentieth-century United States, respectively. These case-study historical chapters enable the introduction of key political issues that are more critically assayed in Parts II and III. With Part II, the reader is introduced in depth to a series of spatial analyses undertaken by Michel Foucault that have been crucial for especially late-twentieth and twenty-first century urban theory and political geography. With Part III the full ramifications of a paradigmatic shift are explored at the level of rethinking territory, population and design. This book is timely and useful for readers who want to develop a stronger understanding of what the book's researchers term a new political paradigm in urban planning, one ultimately governed by global economic forces that define the end of probability.

This title was first published in 2000: Prostitution has always played a crucial symbolic role in the definition of moral and sexual standards and, as such, the figure of the prostitute has been paradigmatic in the history of the sex and the city. Focusing on the geographies of female prostitution in Western societies, this book explores the nature of sites of sex work and the ways they shape the lives of prostitutes (and their clients). In so doing, the book aims not simply to present a static'mapping'of sex work, but seeks to highlight how these public and private ssites are struggled over, with prostitutes often resisting the strategies of social and legal control designed to regulate their working practices. The book consequently engages with a number of contemporary debates in social, cultural and gender geography surrounding the importance of public and private spaces in producing (and reproducing) gender, sex and bodily identities.

Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm. This book gathers cutting-edge treatments, research field reports and critical examinations of crime and harm in cities, from the disciplines of urban studies and criminology. The social, economic and political composition of cities and the various inequalities that mark out and drive the problem of crime in many cities today are foregrounded. Readers follow a series of thematic engagements, generating a deeper understanding of a range of key areas that include problems of violence, social and spatial divisions, housing, policing and the role of the urban economy in issues of financial crime.This book comes at a time of rising crime in many cities and complex responses by city administrations and communities. It presents a critical, political thesis – that crime in cities must be understood with reference to the varying social structures, political forces and economic opportunities of cities. These influences intersect to produce dramatic variations in victimisation and attempts at social control, often felt most strongly around class and gender divisions. To understand crime, we must better understand the life of the city. Urban Criminology seeks to present an integrated framework that brings to life these key issues and seeks to enthuse students of our urban condition – to locate the harms within it and to identify ways of reducing the risk of crime.This book is ideal reading for all students with an interest in cities, crime, community life, urban sociology and urban cultures.

La ville en tant qu'établissement humain s'est largement imposée dans nos manières de penser, de sentir, d'agir, de bouger, de communiquer, d'aimer, de consommer… Il n'est donc pas étonnant de voir les grands auteurs de la sociologie intégrer la ville dans leurs réflexions. Qu'il s'agisse de Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim ou encore Max Weber, tous ces pionniers de la sociologie ont vu dans la grande ville le lieu même de la modernité, et leurs travaux ont permis le développement de la sociologie urbaine.Si dans cet ouvrage les grandes figures (Henri Lefebvre, Raymond Ledrut, Henri Raymond…) sont étudiées, cela ne veut pas dire pour autant que seuls les sociologues urbains sont mobilisés. Géographes, politistes, philosophes, architectes étayent ponctuellement le propos au point que les limites de la sociologie urbaine deviennent parfois si poreuses qu'il semble préférable de parler plus largement d'études urbaines (urban studies). Ce manuel entend déborder le champ de la sociologie urbaine en étudiant nombre de problématiques liées au monde urbain actuel (fragmentation territoriale, gouvernance, patrimonialisation, aménagement…).

Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text, The New Urban Sociology is a broad and expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and accessible to students. Organized around an integrated paradigm, the sociospatial perspective, this text examines the role played by social factors such as race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, and culture on the development of metropolitan areas, and integrates social, ecological, and political economy perspectives and research into this study. With its unique perspective, concise history of urban life, clear summary of urban social theory, and attention to the impact of culture on urban development, this book gives students a cohesive conceptual framework for understanding cities and urban life.The sixth edition of The New Urban Sociology is a major overhaul and expansion of the previous editions. This edition is packed with new material including an expansion of the sociospatial approach to include the primary importance of racism in the formation of the urban landscape, the spatial aspects of urban social problems, including the issues surrounding urban public health and affordable housing, and a brand new chapter on urban social movements. There is also new material on the importance of space for social groups, including immigrants and the LGBTQ community, as well as the gendered meanings embedded in social space.

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human geography. While most of the world's population now lives in cities, the definition and theoretical specification of the city nonetheless remains elusive. In this extensively updated second edition, Phil Hubbard considers the different ways that the lived and messy realities of urban life have been approached by geographers, past and present. Situating these in the context of ongoing debates concerning globalization, urban fragmentation and planetary urbanism, this new edition considers how contemporary understandings of cities are being enriched via engagement with feminist, queer and post-colonial perspectives. Drawing on a diverse range of literature and case studies from around the world, and featuring boxed explorations of key concepts, City is an essential guide to urban geography for the experienced researcher and novice alike.

Gegenwärtig existieren zahlreiche Konzepte, Begriffe bzw. Label, die aktuelle Entwicklungen und Trends der Stadtentwicklung diagnostizieren. In diesem Handbuch werden die derzeit gängigen Stadtkonzepte systematisch expliziert und verständlich dargestellt. Das Handbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die aktuelle Diskussion zum Thema Stadt in der Wissenschaft, im Städtebau und in der Planung sowie in Wirtschaft und Politik.

‘Hurry'is an intrinsic component of modernity. It exists not only in tandem with modern constructions of mobility, speed, rhythm, and time–space compression, but also with infrastructures, technologies, practices, and emotions associated with the experience of the ‘mobilizing modern'. ‘Hurry'is not simply speed. It may result in congestion, slowing-down, or inaction in the face of over-stimulus. Speeding-up is often competitive: faster traffic on better roads made it harder for pedestrians to cross, or for horse-drawn vehicles and cyclists to share the carriageway with motorized vehicles. Focusing on the cultural and material manifestations of ‘hurry', the book's contributors analyse the complexities, tensions, and contradictions inherent in the impulse to higher rates of circulation in modernizing cities.The collection includes, but also goes beyond, accounts of new forms of mobility (bicycles, buses, underground trains) and infrastructure (street layouts and surfaces, business exchanges, and hotels) to show how modernity's ‘architectures of hurry'have been experienced, represented, and practised since the mid nineteenth century. Ten case studies explore different expressions of ‘hurry'across cities and urban regions in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and substantial introductory and concluding chapters situate ‘hurry'in the wider context of modernity and mobility studies and reflect on the future of ‘hurry'in an ever-accelerating world. This diverse collection will be relevant to researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of planning, cultural and historical geography, urban history, and urban sociology.

When living and working in cities, we need to make sense of them in order to get by. We must delve below their surface to understand what makes them tick and how we can best engage with them. This book argues that three tropes can help us: namely, metaphors, icons and perspectives. Metaphorically, we can see the city as a community, a battleground, a marketplace, a machine or an organism. Some cities are iconic; they present us with characteristics that are more generally true of cities and city life, such as Venice, Mumbai, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles. Cities can also be viewed from different perspectives: those of artists, analysts, rulers and citizens. This book explores these ways of understanding cities, drawing on rich accounts of cities across the world and through time.

This edited collection investigates the human dimension of urban renewal, using a range of case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, India and North America, to explore how the conception and delivery of regeneration initiatives can strengthen or undermine local communities. Ultimately aiming to understand how urban residents can successfully influence or manage change in their own communities, contributing authors interrogate the complex relationships between policy, planning, economic development, governance systems, history and urban morphology. Alongside more conventional methods, analytical approaches include built form analysis, participant observation, photographic analysis and urban labs. Appealing to upper level undergraduate and masters'students, academics and others involved in urban renewal, the book offers a rich combination of theoretical insight and empirical analysis, contributing to literature on gentrification, the right to the city, and community participation in neighbourhood change.

According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.

Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different material factors involved in the emergence of social life. It puts forward an innovative conceptual framework to reconsider some fundamental features of city-making as a social process: the place of cities in encounters and communications, in the randomness of events and in the repetition of activities that characterise societies. In doing so, it provides fresh analytical tools and theoretical insights to help advance our understanding of the networks of causalities, contingencies and contexts involved in practices of city-making.In a systematic attempt to bring urban analysis and research from the social sciences together, the book is organised around three vital yet relatively neglected dimensions in the social and material shaping of cities: (i) Cities as systems of encounter: an approach to urban segregation as segregated networks; (ii) Cities as systems of communication: a view of shared spaces as a means to association and social experience; (iii) Cities as systems of material interaction: explorations on urban form as an effect of interactivity, and interactivity as an effect of form.Visit the author's website at: http://socialfabric.city/

Nachbarschaft erfährt aktuell in nationalen wie regionalen Programmen, in städtischen Leitpapieren und kommunalen Initiativen eine Hochkonjunktur. Ihr wird für die Erlangung von Gemeinschaft(en) im Lokalen eine besondere Rolle zugesprochen und sie kann – so die dominierende Vorstellung der Programme und Initiativen – durch professionelle Gestaltung angeregt bzw. initiiert werden. Das Buch macht sich auf die Spurensuche nach Nachbarschaftskonzepten und -thematisierungen, ordnet diese in aktuelle theoretische Vergemeinschaftungsdiskurse ein und eröffnet mit dem Konzept der Sozialen Nachbarschaften Perspektiven für Nachbarschaftspolitiken und die professionelle Arbeit mit bzw. in Nachbarschaften.

Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text, The New Urban Sociology is a broad and expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and accessible to the student. A thought leader in the field, the book is organized around an integrated paradigm (the sociospatial perspective) which considers the role played by social factors such as race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas. Emphasizing the importance of space to social life and real estate to urban development, the book integrates social, ecological and political economy perspectives and research through a fresh theoretical approach. With its unique perspective, concise history of urban life, clear summary of urban social theory, and attention to the impact of culture on urban development, this book gives students a cohesive conceptual framework for understanding cities and urban life. In this thoroughly revised 5th edition, authors Mark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison, and Michael T. Ryan offer expanded discussions of created cultures, gentrification, and urban tourism, and have incorporated the most recent work in the field throughout the text. The New Urban Sociology is a necessity for all courses on the subject.

Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers. The past few decades have seen an extraordinary revival in the field, as scholars and the public at large grapple with the increasingly complex and pressing issues that affect the ever-changing American city-from poverty to the immigrant experience, the changing nature of social bonds to mass incarceration, hyper-segregation to gentrification. As both a method of research and a form of literature, urban ethnography has seen a notable and important resurgence. This renewed interest demands a clear and comprehensive understanding of the history and development of the field to which this volume contributes by presenting a selection of past and present contributions to American urban ethnographic writing. Beginning with an original introduction highlighting the origins, practices, and significance of the field, editors Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra Murphy guide the reader through the major and fascinating topics on which it has focused -- from the community, public spaces, family, education, work, and recreation, to social policy, and the relationship between ethnographers and their subjects. An indispensable guide, The Urban Ethnography Reader provides an overview of how the discipline has grown and developed while offering students and scholars a selection of some of the finest social scientific writing on the life of the modern city.

Según la ONU, más de mil millones de personas viven en ciudades miseria, en favelas, cerros, chabolas, cantegriles, campamentos y barriadas del Sur global. En este ambicioso y brillante libro, Mike Davis explora el futuro de una desigualdad radical y de una inestabilidad a punto de estallar. Davis retrata la realidad de un vasto y horrendo almacén de seres humanos desterrados de la economía mundial en ciudades pobres hiperdegradadas. Desde la expansión de barriadas en Lima hasta las montañas de basura en Manila, la urbanización de las ciudades miseria se ha separado de la industrialización, e incluso del crecimiento económico. El autor realiza una cuantificación de la aterradora producción en masa de la miseria que caracteriza a las ciudades contemporáneas y argumenta que el crecimiento exponencial de las ciudades miseria no es accidental, sino que es el resultado de una conjunción simultánea de la corrupción de las clases dirigentes, del fracaso institucional y de la acción del FMI y de los Programas de Ajuste Estructural (SAP), dirigidos a transferir la riqueza de pobres a ricos. Azote del sistema neoliberal, Davis desacredita el irresponsable mito de la salvación por uno mismo mostrando exactamente quién es expulsado del'capitalismo autosuficiente'. ¿Son estas ciudades marginales, como la aterrorizada clase media victoriana imaginó, terribles volcanes a la espera de entrar en erupción?'Los datos pasmosos recogidos en el libro golpean como verdaderos mazazos...un libro desgarrador.'Financial Times'Si espera usted de este libro un tono apocalíptico -y quién no, ciertamente, pues cómo exponer si no el entuerto en que andamos metidos-, no hay nadie que lo explique mejor.'The Guardian'Una profunda investigación sobre una cuestión apremiante...un libro extraordinario.'Arundhati Roy

This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory.

The book presents the history of city sociology, offers new reading and interpretation of classical works from the 19th and 20th centuries, and a general overview of the existing theories of the city. At the same time, it maps some current debates that take place in the field of interdisciplinary urban studies and which greatly changes the way social scientists look at cities today. In addition to an overview of how city sociology has evolved over the past hundred years in an international context, the book also offers an interpretation of the history of urban studies in the local environment and examines the interconnection of Czech sociology with international art in the past and today. It allows us to monitor the questions asked by researchers and researchers in different historical and geographic conditions, how they understood and what they found out about their research.

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary views of society, but by rejecting the importance of place they are both deeply flawed. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Great American City argues that communities still matter because life is decisively shaped by where you live. To demonstrate the powerfully enduring impact of place, Robert J. Sampson presents here the fruits of over a decade's research in Chicago combined with his own unique personal observations about life in the city, from Cabrini Green to Trump Tower and Millennium Park to the Robert Taylor Homes. He discovers that neighborhoods influence a remarkably wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, teen births, altruism, leadership networks, and immigration. Even national crises cannot halt the impact of place, Sampson finds, as he analyzes the consequences of the Great Recession and its aftermath, bringing his magisterial study up to the fall of 2010. Following in the influential tradition of the Chicago School of urban studies but updated for the twenty-first century, Great American City is at once a landmark research project, a commanding argument for a new theory of social life, and the story of an iconic city.

Heutige Gesellschaften lassen sich in erster Linie als städtisch geprägt verstehen. Doch was bedeutet es, als Individuum in einer Stadt aufzuwachsen, sich in ihr zu orientieren und sein Leben mit anderen Menschen zu gestalten? In diesem Handbuch werden die unterschiedlichen Seiten der Stadtgesellschaft wie das multikulturelle Zusammenleben, soziale Ungleichheiten und Segregation, Mobilität, Kriminalität, Stadtplanung, Lokalpolitik oder das Leben in Nachbarschaften und in öffentlichen Räumen unter dieser Fragestellung beleuchtet. Das Handbuch bietet eine Übersicht über das soziologische Wissen zu den unterschiedlichen Aspekten städtischen Lebens. Dabei werden übergeordnete theoretische Diskussionen von der'Megacity'bis hin zur'Europäischen Stadt'aufgearbeitet. Um einen Anschluss an die weitergehenden Debatten der Soziologien zu ermöglichen, werden zudem klassische und neuere Theorien hinsichtlich ihres Stadt- und Raumverständniss eingeführt.

Now revised and updated, this groundbreaking text utilizes an integrated sociospatial paradigm to consider the role of race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas.

Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that'race'continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as examples.

This volume of'Research in Urban Sociology'is composed of a selection of the papers presented at the conference'Everyday Life in the Segmented City'held in July 2010, Florence. The conference gathered a multiplicity of approaches and points of view dealing with issues of global urbanization. Urbanization is a phenomenon inscribed into the globalization process that has enormous consequences in the transformation of urban space and the everyday life of citizens, and is reflected also in the flourishing of an analytical discourse increasingly transcending the boundaries of established urban disciplines. The progressive extension of the urban domain beyond the limits of the city and across diverse scales has its corollary in the progressive segmentation of the urban dimension along multiple lines of physical, social, economic, cultural and ethnic nature. This volume focuses on the perspective of the everyday to analyze how practices and policy can overcome the spin towards fragmentation and anomie, and reinforce social cohesion for a more just and livable city, endorsing the'right to the city'as presented by the seminal work of Henri Lefebvre.

Die Soziologie des Fremden ist auch eine Soziologie der Großstadt. Große Städte zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie Orte des Fremden sind. Deshalb stehen sie gleichzeitig für Fortschritt, Emanzipation und Verunsicherung. Wie aber beeinflussen Räume die Begegnungen von Fremden und wie Fremde die Wahrnehmung von Raum? Welche Rolle spielt dabei Kontrolle? Lässt sich öffentlicher Raum auch als Mosaik denken? Eine soziologische Standortbestimmung. Der Autor stellt dar, wie Verhalten vor allem über die Gestaltung und funktionale Ausrichtung von Raum kontrolliert und gelenkt wird, und wie neben sozialer Kontrolle Institutionalisierung und lokale Sozialisation die Wahrnehmung von Räumen und Fremden beeinflussen. Neben großstadttypisches indifferentes Verhalten treten unterschiedliche Formen von Disziplinierung, dörflicher Vertrautheit, Selbstanpassung und Exklusion. Die Art und Weise, wie unterschiedliche Räume produziert werden und die jeweils zugrunde liegenden Herrschaftstypen bilden Ausgangspunkte für entsprechende räumliche Differenzierungen, und sie bestimmen darüber hinaus Möglichkeiten, Räume abweichend von ihrer Produktionsintention zu konstruieren. Dabei werden traditionelle, bürgerliche Vorstellungen von öffentlichem Raum hinterfragt und gezeigt, dass selbst der Normalismus von Shopping Malls als Teil eines''flüssigen Mosaiks''urbaner Öffentlichkeit begriffen werden kann. Die Öffentlichkeit der Großstadt resultiert erst aus der Summe ihrer segregierten Teilöffentlichkeiten.

The “profound... brilliant” account of the rise of the world's slums and the failures of modern urbanization—by the world's leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author) According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key concepts in human geography. Always at the heart of discussions in social theory, the definition and specification of ‘the city'nonetheless remains illusive. In this volume, Phil Hubbard locates the concept of ‘the city'within current traditions of social thought, providing a basis for understanding its varying usages and meanings through a critical discussion of the contribution of key authors and thinkers. Written in a lively and accessible style, the individual chapters of City offer a thematic overview of four dominant ways of approaching cities: as lived-in places as imagined spaces as networks of association as technologies of flow. Drawing on a diverse range of literatures and case studies, the book spells out the importance of a geographical perspective on the city, suggesting that it is only by bringing these different ways of mapping the city together that we can begin to make sense of cities.

Das Lehrbuch zur Stadtsoziologie Von der modernen Großstadt bis zur beschaulichen Provinzstadt, von den Lebensstilen in der Innenstadt bis zu den Villenvierteln behandelt die Stadtsoziologie ein breites Themengebiet. Das Lehrbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die wichtigsten Bereiche der stadtsoziologischen Forschung und deren theoretische Ansätze. In einem wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Abriss wird die Entwicklung des soziologischen Denkens über die Stadt dargestellt, beginnend mit Marx / Engels über Weber bis zu den aktuellen Debatten über moderne Urbanität. Die feministische Perspektive auf die Stadt und die Tradition der Gemeindestudien werden in eigenen Kapiteln behandelt. Ausführlich werden überdies die Ursachen und Folgen sozialer Segregation und'ethnischer Koloniebildung'in den Städten thematisiert. Das Buch wendet sich nicht nur an Studierende, es ist auch geeignet für Leser, die nicht mit der Fachsprache vertraut sind und ein allgemeines Interesse an sozialen Fragen bzw. an der Stadt haben.

For the first time Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies, and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe to one another. Both students and urban scholars will appreciate the critical way in which classical and contemporary debates on the nature of the city are presented. Extensive use is made throughout of documentary, literary and cultural sources to bring the different theoretical perspectives to life. Discussion points introduce and explain key concepts and intellectual histories in a jargon free manner. End of chapter further readings have also been annotated to encourage additional study.

The long-awaited second edition of this highly successful text on urban sociology retains the distinctive character and focus of the original, while taking fully into account recent theoretical debates and new empirical research. Expanded and thoroughly revised throughout, it incorporates the substantial new literature on urban inequality, urban culture, urban politics and globalization. It thus offers a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute account of its subject, ideal for study purposes at undergraduate level and beyond.

Readings in Urban Sociology covers the specialized aspect of sociology, together with an introduction designed to relate the selected Readings to the state of sociological knowledge and research in the field in question. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 12 chapters, and begins with an overview of the study of urbanization and urban sociology. The opening part describes the nature of industrial urbanism in Great Britain. This part deals with the development of British urban sociology and the idea of neighborhood community. The next part examines the distinction between ways of life in the modern city and the modern suburb. This part also looks into the context of urbanization involving population dispersal and diffusion. The closing parts provide an analysis of the urban system in terms of a conflict model and demonstrate the development of Prague's ecological structure. These parts also discuss the notion of a rural-urban continuum and the process of adjustment to an urban system in Africa. This book will prove useful to sociologists and researchers.

Urban Sociology in Canada, Second Edition introduces the fundamentals of the theoretical structure of Canadian urban studies. The book is comprised of 11 chapters that are organized into six parts. The text provides census data of various Canadian cities along with urban empirical studies to help illustrate the generalization and concepts. The book first covers the classical foundations of urban sociology, and then proceeds to discussing the growth of urban system. The third part talks about the process of entrance to the urban system, while the fourth part deals with the spatial shape of the urban system. The last two parts tackle urbanism and the regulation of urban system, respectively. The book will be of great use to social scientists who involve urban population as the main demographics of their research study.