Thick Space : : Approaches to Metropolitanism /

Thick Space : : Approaches to Metropolitanism / / ed. by Sasha Disko, Dorothee Brantz, Georg Wagner-Kyora.

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 que...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bender, Thomas,
Brantz, Dorothee,
Disko, Sasha,
Dümpelmann, Sonja,
Farías, Ignacio,
Frahm, Laura,
Färber, Alexa,
Graaff, Kristina,
Höhne, Stefan,
Kaschuba, Wolfgang,
Kemper, Jan,
Mayer, Margit,
Opitz, Tim,
Platt, Harold L.,
Reif, Heinz,
Rodger, Richard,
Stemmler, Susanne,
Stratigakos, Despina,
Wagner-Kyora, Georg,
HerausgeberIn:
Brantz, Dorothee,
Disko, Sasha,
Wagner-Kyora, Georg,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2012
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Urban Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism
  • Section 1: Conflicting Concepts
  • Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies
  • Deconstructing “Metropolis”: Critical Reflections on a European Concept
  • Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology
  • The Significance of the Metropolis
  • Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion
  • Section 2: Environments and Imaginations
  • History, Theory, and the Metropolis
  • An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis
  • Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20th Century
  • Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis
  • Section 3: Social Spaces of Metropolitan Culture
  • Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios
  • Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space
  • Women and the Modern Metropolis
  • The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21st Century America
  • Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology
  • The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin
  • Contributors

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