Book description
This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation
from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.
- The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind
- Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on
well established debates in the field
- Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental
and political issues more broadly
- Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities
Gary Bridge
is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies,
University of Bristol. He is the author of
Reason in the City of
Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism
(2005) and co-editor of
Gentrification in a Global Context
(with Rowland Atkinson, 2005), and
The Blackwell City Reader
(with Sophie Watson, second edition 2010).
Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University.
She is the author of City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban
Encounters (2006), co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the
Millennium (1997) and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and
Spaces (1995), Metropolis Now (1994), and The Blackwell
City Reader (with Gary Bridge, second edition 2010), among other publications.
