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This text proposes a new theoretical grounding for the study of cities and the people who live and work in them. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be encompassed by Marxian social analysis and other conventional approaches, the author offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities need to e viewed in terms of hybridity, reflecting neither atomistic nor communitarian ideals bur rather a shifting spectrum of cultural and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented by the active idea of spacing. and third, the structuring aspect of society yields to the notions of system-lifeworld polarity more readily than to a purely economic paradigm. The author examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxism urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions can help us understand the challenge
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Kian Tajbakhsh is Assistant Professor in the Urban Policy Analysis Department at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University.
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The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
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University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0520222776
ISBN 13 : 9780520222779
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Book is in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Issued without dustjacket. 'The Promise of the City' proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm. Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1759585700189
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The Promise of the City : Space, Identity and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
Edité par
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0520222776
ISBN 13 : 9780520222779
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
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The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
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University of California Press, 2000
ISBN 10 : 0520222776
ISBN 13 : 9780520222779
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Couverture rigide
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