The city reader / edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LeGates, Richard T., editor.

Stout, Frederic, 1943- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Routledge urban reader series

The Routledge urban reader series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy.

Cities and towns.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 743 pages, 39 unnumbered pages of plates).

polychrome

Edition:

Seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Richard T. LeGates is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at San Francisco State University, USA. Frederic Stout is Lecturer in Urban Studies at Stanford University, USA.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

COMMENTS ON THE CITY READER

Contents

List of plates

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

PROLOGUE: "HOW TO STUDY CITIES"

PART 1 THE EVOLUTION OF CITIES

Introduction

"The Urbanization of the Human Population"

"The Urban Revolution"

"The Realisation of Democracy: Athens"

"City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"

"The Great Towns"

"Urbanity versus Suburbanity: France and the United States"

"The Automobile, the City, and the New Urban Mobilities"

"Global City Network"

Plate Section 1: The Evolution of Cities

PART 2 URBAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY

"The Urban Drama"

"Urbanism as a Way of Life"

"The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice"

"The Code of the Street" and "Decent and Street Families"

"Spicing the City"

"Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital"

"The City as Innovation Machine"

"The City That Lost Its Soul"

PART 3 URBAN SPACE

"The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"

"The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"

"Gender and Urban Space"

"Social Exclusion, Space, and Time"

"Bright vs. Blurred Boundaries: Second-generation Assimilation and Exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States"

"The Causes of Sprawl"

"Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age"

"European Space and Spatial Policy"

Plate Section 2: Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban Space

PART 4 URBAN POLITICS, GOVERNANCE, AND ECONOMICS

Selections from Politics

"The Right to the City"

"A Ladder of Citizen Participation"

"Reflections on Regime Politics: From Governing Coalition to Urban Political Order"

"The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City"

"The City as a Growth Machine: Towards a Political Economy of Place"

"The City as a Distorted Price System"

"Metropolitics and Fiscal Equity"

PART 5 URBAN PLANNING HISTORY AND VISIONS

"Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"

"Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"

"A Contemporary City"

"Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"

"Towards Sustainable Development"

"The Charter of the New Urbanism"

"Green Manhattan: Everywhere Should Be More Like New York"

"The Almost Perfect Town"

PART 6 URBAN PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE

"The City of Theory"

"The Uses of Planning Theory"

"Planning in the Face of Conflict"

"Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning"

"Resilient Cities: Clarifying Concept or Catch-all Cliché?"

"The Smart City"

"Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search for the Global Cultural Commons"

"Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe's Central Urban Issues"

PART 7 URBAN DESIGN AND PLACEMAKING

Introduction

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: The city reader

ISBN:

9780429537325

0429537328

9780429261732

042926173X

9780429523854

0429523858

9780429552021

0429552025

Publisher Number:

99989058047

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