Keywords:
Sociology, Urban.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Analysing cities through spatial understanding, this book explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity and outlines new ways to address some of the ambiguities of cities: their promise, potential and problems.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (195 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203980323
Series Statement:
Understanding Cities Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=235114
DDC:
307.76
Language:
English
Note:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- THE OPEN UNIVERSITY COURSE TEAM -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 What is a city? -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 IMAGES OF THE CITY -- 1.2 SO, WHAT IS A CITY? -- 2 From nature to metropolis (and back again) -- 2.1 CHI-GOUG BEFORE CHICAGO: LAND AND NATURE -- 2.2 THE MAKING OF CHICAGO: FROM MUD TO MOVEMENT -- 2.3 CHICAGO'S NATURE: THE CITY'S FOOTPRINT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH -- 2.4 THE ENDS OF CHICAGO -- 2.5 COSMOPOLITAN CHICAGO -- 3 The intensity of city life: size, density and heterogeneity -- 3.1 THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE -- 3.2 THE DENSITY OF SETTLEMENT -- 3.3 THE HETEROGENEITY OF CITIES -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Worlds within cities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 City rhythms: the comings and goings of city life -- 2.1 A DAY IN THE LIFE… -- 2.2 SENSES OF RHYTHM -- 2.3 WHOSE RHYTHMS? -- 3 City environments: juxtapositions of feeling -- 3.1 BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS AND 'WILD' PLACES -- 3.2 CHARGED ENVIRONMENTS -- 4 City life: proximity and difference -- 4.1 CLOSED WORLDS AND HIGH WALLS -- 4.2 INDIFFERENT WORLDS AND DETACHED LIFESTYLES -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER 3 Cities in the world -- 1 Cities interlinked -- 1.1 THE SQUARE OF THE THREE CULTURES -- 1.2 A BIT OF HISTORY -- 1.3 REFLECTIONS -- 2 Megacities and global cities -- 2.1 SIZE AND POWER -- 2.2 IMPACTS AND FUTURES -- 2.2.1 What of cities' impact on the non-urban world? -- 2.2.2 Changing networks and changing fortunes -- 2.3 OTHER APPROACHES -- 3 The city without and within -- 3.1 DIVIDED CITIES -- 3.2 PROBLEMS IN THE CITY -- References -- READING 3A 'Negotiating the heart: place and identity in the post-imperial city' -- References -- CHAPTER 4 On space and the city -- 1 On the city -- 2 On space and the city -- 1 The city as specifically spatial -- 2 Spatial configurations as generative.
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3 The openness of the outcome -- 3 On some tensions of urban spatiality -- 4 And finally… -- REFERENCE -- READING 4A 'Exit from the city of destruction' -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
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