دانلود کتاب Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction (Critical Introductions to Geography)

فهرست مطالب :

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1 Approaching the City
1.1 Introduction
Bright lights, big city
Academic approaches
1.2 Being Geographical, Being Urbanist
Defining “the urban” as an object of study
1.3 Approaching Cities as Processes: Urbanization and Development, Urbanism, and Planning
Urbanization and development
Urbanism
Planning
Summary
1.4 Urban Geography: Foundational Approaches
Before there was Urban Geography: The Chicago School
Urban geography, from the Chicago School to the quantitative revolution
1.5 Conclusion: Building on our Foundations
1.6 Further Reading
Chapter 2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Developing Critical Urban Theories and Concepts
Gentrification and the “rent gap” as critical concepts
Being critical by combining the abstract and the concrete
2.3 Social Relevance and Public Action
Public urban geographies and the right to the city
Occupying urban space and urban political discourse
2.4 Ordinary Urbanism in a World of Cities
Critical geographies beyond the academy
Critical geographies beyond the global North: Ordinariness, difference,and decentering urban theory
2.5 Positively Different, Positively Critical
2.6 Further Reading
Chapter 3 Production, Economy, and the City
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Urbanization and the Regional Dynamics of the Production System
Accumulation, urbanization, and capitalist development
Urban development under mass production
3.3 Patterns and Processes of Urban and Regional Development after Fordism
3.4 Globalization as regional urbanization
Uneven regional development in the United Kingdom
Racism and uneven urban development: the case of redlining
3.5 Gentrification: The Economic Revival of the Inner City?
3.6 Summary and Conclusions
3.7 Further Reading
Chapter 4 A World of Cities
4.1 Introduction
4.2 There is Nothing New About Global Cities
4.3 Cities in the Contemporary World: The Global Cities Literature
Economic command, control, and connection, post-1970
Specifying “globalness”: Advanced producer services and the command and control of the global economy
Measuring and mapping command, control, and connections
4.4 Beyond a “Citadel Geography”: The Critique of the Dominant Global Cities Approach
4.5 Toward Critical Geographies of Ordinary Urbanism: Researching a World of Cities
Ordinary urbanism on the move
4.6 Conclusion
4.7 Further Reading
Chapter 5 Labor and the City
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Why your Labor Matters: Making a Living in the City
5.3 The Control and Segmentation of Labor in the Industrial City
The control and segregation of labor in the new international division of labor
5.4 The Urban Labor Market: Dynamic Dependencies Between Employers and Workers
5.5 Welfare-to-Work and the Rise of Contingent Labor in the City
5.6 Resisting Urban Economic Change: Labor and Community Coalitions
Contesting deindustrialization in Chicago
Living wage campaigns in London
5.7 Summary and Conclusion
5.8 Further Reading
Chapter 6 The City and Social Reproduction
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Defining the Gendered Spaces of Social Reproduction
Women’s work, love, and the social reproduction of capitalism
6.3 Social Reproduction and Urban Form
Social reproduction and urban form in Kolkata, India
6.4 Changing Spaces of Social Reproduction
The case of public housing in the United States
The case of undocumented migrant life in the United States
The case of structural adjustment in Kingston, Jamaica
6.5 Summary
6.6 Further Reading
Chapter 7 Governing the City The State, Urban Planning, and Politics
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Capitalist Urbanization: Planning, Social Provision, and the Housing Question
The provision of housing
7.3 Urban Entrepreneurialism and the New Urban Politics
Entrepreneurial urban policies
7.4 Suburban Development and Metropolitan Political Fragmentation
Edge cities and postsuburban space
Gated communities
7.5 De Facto Urban Policy and the Rise of City-Regionalism
7.6 Summary and Conclusions
7.7 Further Reading
Chapter 8 Experiencing Cities
8.1 Introduction
8.2 What is “Experience”?
Social difference and power
8.3 Social Space, City Space
Gentrification
Is the “ghetto” your home?
Homelessness
Youth geographies and consumption spaces
8.4 Is there an Urban Identity?
8.5 Emotions and City Life
8.6 Summary and Conclusions
8.7 Further Reading
Chapter 9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Entrepreneurialism
9.3 Who Markets Cities and to Whom? Key Actors and Audiences
9.4 Making the Pitch: The Strategies and Politics of Shaping Urban Identities for the Market
Imagineering the built environment as a resource for production and consumption
People as resources for production and consumption
Managing and policing the Imagineered city
The politics of maintaining a city’s image
9.5 Summary and Conclusions
9.6 Further Reading
Chapter 10 Nature and Environment in the City
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Nature in the Modern Metropolis
Urban metabolism
Positive environmentalism
Disease, life, and death in the modern city
10.3 Regulating Nature and Environment in the City
Regulating the boundaries between city and countryside
Re-imagining nature in the entrepreneurial city
10.4 The Urban Sustainability Fix: Towards Low Carbon Cities
10.5 Summary and Conclusion
10.6 Further Reading
Chapter 11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Art, Aesthetics, and Urban Space
11.3 Visuality
11.4 The Artistic Mode of Production
11.5 Architecture, Verticality, and the Nation
11.6 Museums and Memorialization
11.7 Summary and Conclusions
11.8 Further Reading
Chapter 12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Beyond Mainstream Urban Development Politics
12.3 The Right to the City and the New Urban Commons
The right to the city
The new urban commons
12.4 The City, Citizenship, and Democracy
12.5 Environmental and Social Justice in the City
12.6 Circuits of Value and Alternative Urban Enterprises
12.7 Summary and Conclusions
12.8 Further Reading
Chapter 13 Urban Crises
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Global Financial Crisis and Austerity Urbanism
13.3 Shrinking Cities
The effects of shrinkage on urban identity and memory
13.4 National Political Unrest
Bangkok, Thailand
13.5 The Urban Carceral Society
The carceral society away from prison
13.6 Militarization of the City, Urbanization of the Military
13.7 Summary and Conclusions
13.8 Further Reading
Chapter 14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Ways Forward
Exploring interconnected urban worlds
Looking for new and existing alliances and social movements in the city
Rescaling knowledge of the state and citizenship around the city
Revealing urban geographies of social reproduction
Planning for social and environmental justice in the city
14.3 Final reflections and Conclusions
Glossary
References
Index
EULA