Cities and urban cultures / Deborah Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Deborah, 1958-

Series:

Issues in cultural and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban anthropology.

City and town life.

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 164 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead, England ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2003.

Contents:

'Last Trams I' and 'II' / Kenneth Slessor x

1 City Cultures 1

The structure of Cities and Urban Cultures 6

2 Landscapes of Shadow and Smog: The Emergence of the Industrial City 12

Introduction: the rural and the urban 12

Industrialization and urban growth 13

Background to urbanism 15

Reimagining Utopia 19

Freedom, loneliness and the modern metropolis 23

Ethnography and the patterning of urban life 26

Conclusion: dreamers, planners and reformers 29

3 Cities of Difference: Inequality, Marginalization and Fear 32

Introduction: from consensus to conflict 32

Social justice and the 'urban question' 33

Gender in the city 37

The politics of urban difference 40

New divided city? 44

Global trends and local diversity 48

Conclusion: the micro and the macro 51

4 Meaning and Memory: Reading the Urban Text 54

Introduction: the culture of cities 54

The city experienced 55

Texts and contexts 58

Into the 'labyrinth' 62

Walking and the tactics of everyday life 67

Conclusion: surfaces and depths 70

5 Designing the Urban: From the City Beautiful to the 'End' of Modernism 73

Introduction: boulevards, skyscrapers and pastiche 73

Landscapes of power 74

A 'sidewalk ballet' 78

The vertical city 82

Postmodern landscapes 87

Conclusion: from space to place 91

6 The City as Spectacle: Culture and the Reimaging of Cities 93

Introduction: making cities fun 93

Urban decline and the global 94

Selling the city 98

'An urbanism of universal equivalence' 100

Cultural planning and the 'creative city' 104

Planning cultural citizenship 107

Conclusion: fantasy cities 111

7 Imagining the City: Movies, Maps and Cyberspace 113

Introduction: inner cities 113

Mapping the landscape 115

The art of the city 119

The imaginary suburb 123

Virtual gemeinschaft 128

Conclusion: words and pictures 132

8 Conclusion: Beyond Urbanism? 134.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [144]-158) and index.

ISBN:

0335208452

0335208444

OCLC:

50322739