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Thick Space Approaches to Metropolitanism Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko, Georg Wagner-Kyora
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
- Urban Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metropolis.
- Metropolitanism.
- Media.
- Urban Space.
- Theory of Urban Studies.
- Urbanity.
- Space.
- Urban Studies.
- Sociology.
- Local Subjects:
- Metropolis.
- Metropolitanism.
- Media.
- Urban Space.
- Theory of Urban Studies.
- Urbanity.
- Space.
- Urban Studies.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Brantz et al. (eds.), Thick Space Approaches to Metropolitanism
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Dorothee Brantz is a professor of urban environmental history and the director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include urban environmental history, the history of war and peace, and the different temporalities of the urban.
- Sasha Disko is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).
- Georg Wagner-Kyora is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).
- Summary:
- 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.
- Reviewed in:ORLIS, 3 (2014)http://blog.byhistorie.dk,01.07.2014, Mikkel ThelleUrban Studies, 52/5 (2015), David Wachsmuth
- Contents:
- 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism 9 Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies 31 Deconstructing "Metropolis": Critical Reflections on a European Concept 49 Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology 67 The Significance of the Metropolis 85 Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion 105 History, Theory, and the Metropolis 125 An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis 141 Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20th Century 165 Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis 213 Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios 239 Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space 257 Women and the Modern Metropolis 279 The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21st Century America 307 Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology 333 The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin 357 Contributors 379
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839420430
- 3839420431
- OCLC:
- 979634559
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