Global & International Analysis

 

Globalizing cities -Analysis

Mark Abrahamson, Global Cities, Oxford 2004
Mark Amen ed. Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins, Rowman and Littlefield 2006
Neil Brenner & Nik Theodore eds. Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe, Blackwell 2002
Manuel Castells, The Informational City, Blackwell 1989
Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 1: The Rise of the Network Society, 1996 (2nd ed. 2000), Vol. 2: The Power of Identity, 1997; Vol. 3: The End of Millennium, 1997 (2nd ed. 2000). Blackwell
Manuel Castells, Ida Susser ed Castells' Reader on Cities and Social Theory, Blackwell 2001
John Eade ed., Living the Global City: Globalization as local process, Routledge 1997
John Eade & Christopher Mele, Understanding the City, Blackwell 2002
Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin, Telecommunications and the City. Electronic spaces, urban places, Splintering Urbanism, Routledge 2001
Stephen Graham ed. Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics, Blackwell 2004
INURA Possible Urban Worlds. Urban Strategies at the End of the Twentieth Century, Birkhaüser 1999; Contested Metropolis: Six cities at the beginning of the 21st century, Birkhauser 2004
Jane M. Jacobs, Edge of Empire. Postcolonialism and the City, Routledge 1996
Rem Koolhaus et al, Mutations, Actar 2001
Richard Le Gates and Frederick Stout eds. The City Reader, Routledge rev ed 2003
Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw eds., The Urbanization of Injustice, Lawrence and Wishart 1996
William Mitchell, City of Bits, MIT Press 1996; e-topia. urban life Jim but not as we know it , MIT Press 2000
Open University. Understanding Cities (3 vols.): Doreen Massey, John Allen and Steve Pile
City Worlds; John Allen, Doreen Massey and Michael Pryke. Unsettling Cities: Movement /Settlement; Steve Pile, Christopher Brook and Gerry Mooney. Unruly Cities? Order/Disorder Routledge 1999. Also study guide: Christopher Brook and Kathy Pain, City Themes, Open University 1999
Leonie Sandercock, Towards Cosmopolis, John Wiley 1998; ed. Making the Invisible Visible –A Multicultural History of Planning, University of California 1998
Saskia Sassen, Globalization and its Discontents, New Press 1999; The Global City. New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton 2nd ed. 2001; Cities in a World Economy, Pine Forge 2nd ed. 2000; ed. Global Networks, Linked cities, Routledge 2002
John Rennie Short, Global Metropolitan, Trouldege 2004
United Nations (UNCHS) Global Reports on Human Settlements: An Urbanising World, Oxford 1996; Cities in a Globalizing World. Earthscan 2001.
John Urry, Global Complexity, Polity 2003
Petra Weyland & Ayse Once, Space, Culture and Power – New identities in Globalizing Cities, Zed 1998

The Shape of the City (historical, cultural and theoretical analysis)

Ash Amin & Nigel Thrift, Cities. Reimagining the Urban, Polity 2002
Ian Borden, Joe Kerr, Jane Rendell, The Unknown City-Contesting Architecture and Social Space, MIT Press 2001
John Eade and Christopher Mele (eds), Understanding the City, Blackwell 2002
Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell eds., Readings in Urban Theory, Blackwell 1996
David Harvey, Social Justice and the City Blackwell 1973/83; Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference, Blackwell 1996; Spaces of Hope, Edinburgh University Press, 2000
Peter Hall, Cities and Civilisation, W&N 1998
Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, Blackwell 1996 /2003
Andy Merrifield, Dialectical Urbanism, Monthly Review 2002; Metromarxism, Routledge 2002
Steve Pile, Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life, Sage 2005
Richard Rogers, Cities for a Small Planet, Faber 1997
Joseph Rykwert, The Seduction of Place, Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2000
Richard Sennett, The Conscience of the Eye - The Design and Social Life of Cities, Faber 1990; Flesh and Stone - The Body and City in Western Civilisation, Faber 1994
Edward Soja, Postmetropolis. Critical Studies of Cities and Regions, Blackwell 2000
Aidan Southall, The City in Time and Space, CUP 2000
Fran Tonkiss, Space, the City and Social Theory, Polity 2006
Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson eds. Postmodern Cities and Spaces, Blackwell 1995
Sophie Watson and Gary Bridge (eds), A Companion to the City, Blackwell 2000; City Reader, Blackwell 2002

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