Thick Space
Approaches to Metropolitanism
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism
Seiten 9 - 28 -
Section 1: Conflicting Concepts
Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies
Seiten 31 - 48 -
Deconstructing "Metropolis": Critical Reflections on a European Concept
Seiten 49 - 66 -
Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology
Seiten 67 - 84 -
The Significance of the Metropolis
Seiten 85 - 104 -
Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion
Seiten 105 - 122 -
Section 2: Environments and Imaginations
History, Theory, and the Metropolis
Seiten 125 - 140 -
An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis
Seiten 141 - 164 -
Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20th Century
Seiten 165 - 212 -
Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis
Seiten 213 - 236 -
Section 3: Social Spaces of Metropolitan Culture
Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios
Seiten 239 - 256 -
Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space
Seiten 257 - 278 -
Women and the Modern Metropolis
Seiten 279 - 306 -
The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21st Century America
Seiten 307 - 332 -
Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology
Seiten 333 - 356 -
The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin
Seiten 357 - 378 -
Contributors
Seiten 379 - 384
6. August 2012, 384 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2043-6
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