A Companion to the city / edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson

List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I. Imagining Cities: 1. City Imaginaries / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 2. Three Urban Discourses / John Rennie Short -- 3. Putting Cities First: Remapping the Origins of Urbanism / Edward W. Soja -- 4. Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below / Anthony Vidler -- 5. The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination, and Media Technologies / James Donald -- 6. Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City / Lesley Caldwell -- 7. The City as Imperial Centre: Imagining London in Two Caribbean Novels / Riad Akbur -- 8. Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams / Steve Pile -- 9. Contested Imaginings of the City: City as Locus of Status, Capitalist Accumulation, and Community: Competing Cultures of Southeast Asian Societies / Patrick Guinness -- Part II. The Economy and the City: 10. City Economies / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 11. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities / Ash Amin -- 12. Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis / Andy Merrifield -- 13. Monocentric to Policentric: New Urban Forms and Old Paradigms / William A.V. Clark -- 14. Ups and Downs in the Gobal City: London and New York at the Millennium / Susan S. Fainstein, Michael Harloe -- 15. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City / Saskia Sassen -- 16. Turbulence and Sedimentation in the Labor Markets of Late Twentieth -Century Metropoles / Nick Buck, Jan Gordon -- 17. Informational Cities: Beyond Dualism and Toward Reconstruction / Bob Catterall -- 18. Diaspora Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development / Chung Tong Wu -- 19. Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City / Charles Rutheiser -- 20. Urban Transformation in the Capitals of the Baltic States: Innovation, Culture and Finance / Philip Cooke, Erik Terk, Raite Karnite, Giedrius Blagnys -- Part III. Cities of Division and Difference: 21. City Differences / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 22. Postcolonialism, Representation, and the City / Anthony D. King -- 23. Cities in Quarters / Peter Marcuse -- 24. Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and the European City / Alisdair Rogers -- 25. Working out the Urban: Gender Relations and the City / Liz Bondi, Hazel Christie -- 26. The Sexual Geography of the City / Frank Mort -- 27. From the Other Side of the Tracks: Dual Cities, Third Spaces, and the Urban Uncanny in Contemporary Discourses of "Race" and Class / Phil Cohen -- 28. Gentrification, Postindustrialism, and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities / Chris Hamnett -- 29. Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul / Kevin Robins, Asu Aksoy -- 30. Value Conflicts, Identity Construction, and Urban Change / Lily L. Kong -- Part IV. Public Cultures and Everyday Space: 31. City Publics / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 32. Reflections on the Public Realm / Richard Sennett -- 33. City Life and the Senses / John Urry -- 34. With Child to See Any Strange Thing: Everyday Life in the City / Nigel J. Thrift -- 35. Walter Benjamin, Urban Studies, and the Narratives of City Life / Michael Keith -- 36 "X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive?" / M. Christine Boyer -- 37. Walking and Performing "the City": A Melbourne Chronicle / Benjamin Rossiter, Katherine Gibson -- 38. The Street Politics of Jackie Smith / John Paul Jones III -- 39. Wonderful, Terrible: Everyday Life in Bangkok / Annette Hamilton -- 40. Street Boys in Yogyakarta: Social and Spatial Exclusion in the Public Spaces of the City / Harriot Beazley -- 41. Cyberspace and the City: The "Virtual City" in Europe / Alessandro Aurigi, Stephen Graham -- Part V. Urban Politics and Urban Interventions: 42. City Interventions / Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson -- 43. Planning in Relational Space and Time: Responding to New Urban Realities / Patsy Healey -- 44. The Social Construction of Urban Policy / Allan D. Cochrane -- 45. Urban Planning in the Late Twentieth Century / Patrick Troy -- 46. Varied Legacies of Modernism in Urban Planning / Alan Mabin -- 47. The Environment of the City ... or the Urbanization of Nature -- Erik Swyngedouw, Maria Kaika -- 48. Power and Urban Politics Revisited: The Uses and Abuses of North American Urban Political Economy / Alan Harding -- 49. Social Justice and the City: Equity, Cohesion and the Politics of Space / Fran Tonkiss -- 50. Property Markets and the Production of Inequality / Michael Edwards -- 51. The Politics of Universal Provision of Public Housing / Chua Beng Huat -- 52. Reintegrating the Apartheid City? Urban Policy and Urban Restructuring in Durban / Alisan Todes -- Index