Understanding the City

This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.

List of Illustrations viii List of Tables ix List of Contributors x Series Editors’ Preface xv Preface xvii Part I: Introduction 1 1 Understanding the City 3 John Eade and Christopher Mele Part II: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice, and the City 25 2 Rescripting Cities with Difference 27 Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs, and Kay Anderson 3 The Public City 49 Sophie Watson 4 Social Justice and the South African City 66 David M. Smith 5 The Dangerous Others: Changing Views on Urban Risks and Violence in France and the United States 82 Sophie Body-Gendrot Part III: The Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development 107 6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global 109 Michael Peter Smith 7 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 131 Peter Marcuse 8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development 159 Mark Gottdiener Part IV: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe 181 9 State Socialism, Post-socialism, and their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience 183 Chris Pickvance 10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond 204 Dorothy J. Solinger and Kam Wing Chan 11 Economic Miracles and Megacities: The Japanese Model and Urbanization in East and Southeast Asia 222 J. S. Eades Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East 245 12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore 247 Smriti Srinivas 13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture, and Power 278 Shlomo Hasson 14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts, and Social Movements 305 Paul M. Lubeck and Bryana Britts Part VI: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The United States 337 15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation, and Urban Development 339 Michael Indergaard 16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy, and Public Space 363 Alexander J. Reichl 17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies 379 Leonard Nevarez 18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment in Hollywood 397 Jan Lin Index 419