The transformation of cities: urban theory and urban life
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Houndmills, Balsingstoke, Hampshire
Palgrave
2002
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-254) and index |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 258 p. ill. : 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0333745965 0333745973 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes viii
Preface x
Acknowledgements xii
List of Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction 1
An Urban Millennium 1
Urban Analysis and Urban Transformation 7
Structure of the Book 9
2 Industrial Modern Cities 13
Origins and Growth of the Pre industrial City 13
Industrial City 15
Suburban Development in First world Cities during the
Twentieth Century 18
Explanations for the Growth and Shape of
the Industrial Modern City 22
Summary 39
3 Demographic Change and the City 41
Introduction 41
Demography of Global Cities 41
Household Structure Changes 45
Youth versus Age 47
Regional Changes Urbanising World 53
Changes to Regional Spatial Distributions 56
Migration and City Change 57
Summary 66
4 Global Cities 68
Introduction 68
Modern to Postmodern Cities 69
Socio economic Analysis Postmodernity 70
Two Faces of the Postmodern City 75
Postmodernism Epistemological Challenges 76
Postmodern Critique 78
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vi Contents
From World Systems to Globalisation 80
Global Dynamics 90
Global and the Local 93
Summary 93
5 Everyday Life in the City 96
Introduction 96
Meaning of House and Home 99
Non material Dimensions of House and Home 103
Home as a Site of Work 106
Neighbourhood and Community 107
Analysis of Community 112
Neighbourhood 115
Summary 118
6 Consumption and Urban Culture 120
Defining Consumption 120
Collective Consumption 122
Commodification 123
Commodification and the City 125
Consumer Culture 127
Shopping 133
The Development of Shopping 134
Theme Parks 138
Theme Parks History and Development 139
Urban Tourism and Place making 141
Summary 146
7 Urban Social Inequality and Social Exclusion 149
Introduction 149
Definitions of Social Exclusion 152
Causes of Social Exclusion 154
Patterns of Social Exclusion 156
Summary 175
8 Planning and the Urban Environment 178
Introduction 178
Planning and the City 180
Urban Governance 192
Urban Struggles 197
Summary 201
Contents vii
9 The Sustainable City 203
Introduction 203
Sustainable Development 206
Critique of Sustainability 214
The Aotearoa/New Zealand Resource Management Act, 1991 217
New Urbanism/Smart Growth 221
Summary 226
10 Reflections 228
Bibliography 236
Index 255
List of Figures, Tables
and Boxes
Figures
3.1 World population size: past estimates and medium, high
and low fertility variants, 1950 2050 42
3.2 Proportion of the total population aged 0 14 and 60 and
over, more or less developed regions, 1950 2050 (medium
variant projections) 48
3.3 Age composition of world population, 1998 49
3.4 Age composition of world population, 2050 50
3.5 Percentage of world s mega city population by region,
2000 55
9.1 Elements and consequences of the global crisis 209
9.2 Elements and consequences of sustainable development
for a globally secure world 210
Tables
2.1 Ferdinand Toennies (1855 1936) 25
3.1 Demographic trends and dependency ratios, 1995 2050 51
3.2 Trading places on the Top 30 list of the world s largest cities 54
3.3 City population by regions of the world, 2020 estimates 55
4.1 Key aspects of modern and postmodern cities 71
4.2 Modern and postmodern epistemologies 78
5.1 Housing as percentage of total household assets 101
5.2 Comparative rates of home ownership 102
7.1 Extent of absolute poverty: selected countries 161
7.2 Victims of crime over a five year period 170
viii
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes ix
Boxes
2.1 Sao Paulo, Brazil: industrial change 21
3.1 Brussels: impact of migration 61
4.1 New York: global city 91
5.1 Information technology and community development,
Christchurch, New Zealand and Amsterdam 111
6.1 Bangkok, Thailand: consumption spaces 142
7.1 Sao Paulo, Brazil: walled city 159
7.2 Poverty and city development 163
7.3 Nanjing, China: urban homelessness 169
8.1 Urban renaissance in the UK 191
8.2 Toronto, Canada: the role of politics and planning 194
9.1 Auckland, New Zealand: A sustainable city? 220
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