| Description |
1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file PDF |
| Series |
Urban studies
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Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism / Brantz, Dorothee ; Disko, Sasha ; Wagner-Kyora, Georg -- Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies / Reif, Heinz -- Deconstructing "Metropolis": Critical Reflections on a European Concept / Farías, Ignacio ; Stemmler, Susanne -- Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology / Kemper, Jan -- Significance of the Metropolis / Rodger, Richard -- Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion / Mayer, Margit -- History, Theory, and the Metropolis / Bender, Thomas -- An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis / Höhne, Stefan -- Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20 / Platt, Harold L. -- Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis / Dümpelmann, Sonja -- Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios / Kaschuba, Wolfgang -- Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space / Frahm, Laura -- Women and the Modern Metropolis / Stratigakos, Despina -- Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21 / Graaff, Kristina -- Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology / Färber, Alexa -- Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin / Opitz, Tim -- Contributors. |
| Summary |
Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture. |
| Biography |
Dorothee Brantz is director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS) and head of the international graduate research programme "The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present". Sasha Disko and Georg Wagner-Kyora are urban historians who are affiliated with the CMS. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Metropolitan areas.
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Metropolitan areas. |
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City planning -- Social aspects.
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City planning -- Social aspects. |
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Urbanization -- Social aspects.
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Urbanization -- Social aspects. |
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Cities and towns -- Research.
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Urbanization. |
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Cities and towns -- Research. |
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Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Metropole. |
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Stadtforschung. |
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Urbanität. |
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Stadtsoziologie. |
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Aufsatzsammlung. |
| Indexed Term |
Theory of Urban Studies |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brantz, Dorothee, editor.
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Disko, Sasha, editor.
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Wagner-Kyora, Georg, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783839420430 (electronic book) |
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3839420431 (electronic book) |
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9783837620436 |
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3837620433 |
| Standard No. |
10.14361/transcript.9783839420430 |
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