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  1. Thick Space
    Approaches to Metropolitanism
    Author: Brantz, Dorothee
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

    Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of... more

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    Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact

     
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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783837620436
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; LB 73000 ; MS 1750 ; MS 1780 ; RB 10633
    Series: Urban Studies
    Subjects: Metropolitan areas; Urbanization -- Social aspects; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (385 p)
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    Cover Thick Space ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism; SECTION 1: CONFLICTING CONCEPTS; Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies; Deconstructing "Metropolis:" Critical Reflections on a European Concept; Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology; The Significance of the Metropolis; Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion; SECTION 2: ENVIRONMENTS AND IMAGINATIONS; History, Theory, and the Metropolis

    An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the MetropolisPlanning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20th Century; Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis; SECTION 3: SOCIAL SPACES OF METROPOLITAN CULTURE; Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios; Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space; Women and the Modern Metropolis; The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21st Century America

    Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban AnthropologyThe Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin; Contributors