City VisionsRoutledge, 2018 M10 8 - 280 pages A collection of the latest work on the city, presenting contemporary theories, methods and perspectives in an accessible format for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates in geography, cultural studies and sociology. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Imagining a postindustrial Potteries | 12 |
coins maps monuments souvenirs and tourism | 27 |
vagrancy nomadism and the site of the colonial and postcolonial | 44 |
marginality and mobility in the writings of James Kelman and Irvine Welsh | 60 |
television masculinity and textual geographies | 73 |
Chapter 7 Ethical transgressions beyond the city wall | 91 |
construction of spaces and subjects | 107 |
CCTV surveillance and young peoples use of urban public space | 141 |
Chapter 11 Cosmopolitanism and the sexed city | 166 |
Chapter 12 The new segregation | 179 |
Chapter 13 A critique of integration as the remedy for segregation | 205 |
towards a politics of the plural community | 219 |
Chapter 15 Not a straight line but a curve or Cities are not mirrors of modernity | 233 |
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Chapter 9 Moving through the city | 121 |
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