Urban Theory

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities not just </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>between </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>cities but </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>within </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>cities in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Relations between urban theory and </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>modernity </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in key ideas of the Chicago School spatial analysis humanistic urban geography and 'radical' approaches like Marxism</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cities and the transition to informational economies </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>globalization</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> urban growth machine and urban regime theory the city as an actor</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spatial expressions of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>inequality </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and key ideas like segregation ghettoization suburbanization gentrification</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Socio-cultural spatial expressions of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>difference </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and key concepts like gender sexuality race ethnicity and culturalist perspectives on identity lifestyle subculture</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How cities should be understood as </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>intersections </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of horizontal and vertical - of coinciding resources positions locations influencing how we make and understand urban experiences.</span></li></ul><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Critical interdisciplinary and pedagogically informed - with opening summaries boxes questions for discussion and guided further reading - </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Urban Theory: A Critical Introduction to Power Cities and Urbanism in the 21st Century</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> provides the tools for any student of the city to understand even to change our own urban experiences.</span></p>