Urban theory: a critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century
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| adam_text | Contents
About the authors
xi
Foreword
xii
1.
WHAT IS URBAN THEORY?
1
Urban studies and urban theory
1
Urban
subdisciplines
2
Metaphorical cities
3
The role of theory in urban studies
6
What is urban?
7
Rural and urban
10
What is theory?
12
Ontology and epistemology
12
And so what on earth is urban theory?
19
Questions for discussion
21
Further reading
21
2.
URBAN THEORIES UNDER CONDITIONS OF MODERNITY
23
Introduction
23
The Chicago School and urban ecology
24
Burgess concentric zone model
25
Criticism
25
Wirth s
urbanism
thesis
27
The Chicago School legacy
28
Urban geography and spatial analysis
29
The influence of neo-classical economics on geography
30
Criticism
31
The community power debate
32
Community power: elite theory versus pluralism
32
Moving urban theory forward: gains and criticisms
34
Humanistic (urban) geography
35
Post-positivist approaches
36
Consequences for methods
37
Radical approaches
38
Neo
-Marxism
39
Problems with neo-Marxist approaches
42
Neo-Weberian approaches
44
Radicalism reappraised
46
The legacy of previous theories and their challenges
47
Enduring tensions in urban theory
47
Assessing relaxed urban theory
50
Key challenges for modern urban theory
50
Urban theory in a spiky world
52
Questions for discussion
53
Further reading
53
3.
FROM THE URBAN CRISIS TO THE TRIUMPH OF THE CITY
56
Cities as actors in a globalising economy
56
Urban decline and obsolescence
60
Economic change versus the city
60
Understanding globalisation
65
The much exaggerated death of the city
70
Urban economic renaissance
74
Post-Fordist
urbanism
74
Global and world cities
...
and Los Angeles
77
The new economic geography versus urban neo-liberalism
82
Discussion
86
Questions for discussion
86
Further reading
87
4.
CAN CITIES ACT? URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY AND
THE QUESTION OF AGENCY
88
The rediscovery of agency within urban theory
Introducing American urban political economy
89
Against public choice
90
Urban regimes and growth machines
93
Refining elite theory
93
Use value and exchange value
94
Challenging growth machines
97
Urban regime theory
98
Growth machine and urban regime theory compared
102
Power in urban regime theory
105
The normative dimension
107
Critiques
and applications
109
Evaluating US urban political economy
109
Exporting theory
115
Difficulties of applying growth machine and urban regime theory
115
Questions for discussion
118
Further reading
118
5.
SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS OF INTRA-URBAN INEQUALITIES
120
Introduction
120
Inequalities versus differentiations: vertical and
horizontal paradigms
124
Beyond either horizontal or vertical
125
Living in a world of difference
126
Cities as sites of resources: space and inequalities
127
The production of space
128
Bourdieu on social space
129
Segregation
131
Social segregation
133
Segregation indices
134
Immigration and segregation
134
Segregation and integration
137
Suburbanisation
140
Demand and supply
140
Commercial
suburbanisation
and sprawl
141
The relevance of
suburbanisation
for urban theory
143
Gentrification
145
Gentrification as a process
146
Production versus consumption
147
Displacement
149
Ghettoisation as a spatial process of
marginalisation
150
Ghetto as a term in urban studies
151
Economic restructuring and
marginalisation
153
Stigma, discrimination and racism
155
The culture of poverty
156
Ghetto and urban policy
159
Neighbourhood effects: spatial profit and disadvantage
160
The why of neighbourhood effects
162
Neighbourhood effects and collective efficacy
164
The need for attention to institutions
165
Summary and conclusion
166
Questions for discussion
168
Further reading
169
6.
SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS
OF DIFFERENTIATION
171
Introduction
171
The horizontal
paradigm
172
The cultural turn
174
The cultural turn and postmodernism
175
Lefebvre,
de Certeau
and the production of space
176
The city as a realm of community and lifestyles
178
Community and neighbourhood
178
Lifestyles
181
The subcultural thesis
182
The representational city: public space
185
Defining public space
186
Public space along two axes
187
Public, parochial and private realm
189
Public space as arena of deliberation
190
Public space and representation
191
Cultural diversity: identities in public space
191
Sexualities
192
Gender
195
Ethnicity/race
206
Age and generations
210
Conclusion: cities as a matrix of resources
214
Questions for discussion
216
Further reading
217
7.
URBAN THEORY RECONSIDERED
219
The crisis in urban theory revisited
219
The performance of theories
222
The commensurability of theories
224
Theory, politics and practice
226
A new urban agenda?
229
References
233
Index
285
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