Thick Space
Approaches to Metropolitanism
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2014
384 pages
978-3-8394-2043-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.
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Reviewed in:ORLIS, 3 (2014)http://blog.byhistorie.dk,01.07.2014, Mikkel ThelleUrban Studies, 52/5 (2015), David WachsmuthMore details
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Dorothee Brantz is a professor of urban environmental history and the director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include urban environmental history, the history of war and peace, and the different temporalities of the urban.
Sasha Disko is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).
Georg Wagner-Kyora is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).
Sasha Disko is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).
Georg Wagner-Kyora is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).
Content
- 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 Metropolis
- Planning 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 Anthropology
- The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin
- Contributors
