Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series) - Softcover

John Eade; Christopher Mele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631224076 ISBN 13: 9780631224075

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

Understanding the City This cutting--edge, multi--disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty--first century. Full description

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Review:

"Many anthologies on the city exist, but only a few contain both cutting-edge theoretical essays and rich empirical studies. The latter focus on cities outside the Western urban canon and will make Understanding the City even more attractive to urban scholars." Professor R. Beauregard, New School University

Understanding the city is an engaging read for those grappling with new theoretical and conceptual questions about how cities function.....the essays in this book provide an excellent foundation for new levels of discourse on urban enviroments and city life." Area

About the Author:

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He undertook research in Calcutta before completing his doctorate on Bangladeshi community politics in Londona s East End. He directed the Wandsworth local/global study and his previous publications include The Politics of Community (1989), Living the Global City (1997), and Placing London (2000). He is currently directing a research project on Methodists in the global city and collaborating on an ESRC--funded program on links between Britain and Bangladesh. Christopher Mele is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City (2000). His current research is a study of the influence of historical patterns of race and class upon contemporary urban growth and development along the southeastern coast of the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631224076
• ISBN 13: 9780631224075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444