Table of Contents
List of Contributors x
Preface xiii Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
Acknowledgments xv
Part I City Materialities 1
1 Reflections on Materialities 3 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 15 Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner
3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis 26 John Rennie Short
4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century 38 Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe
5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 48 Amrita Shah
6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis 57 Matthew Gandy
7 Objects and the City 66 Harvey Molotch
8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore 79 Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns
9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings 96 Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw
10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 108 Peter Droege
11 The New Military Urbanism 121 Stephen Graham
12 The City’s New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 134 Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker
13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform 142 Ray Forrest
Part II City Mobilities 155
14 Reflections on Mobilities 157 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
15 “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control 169 Andrew Ross
16 Transnationality and the City 179 Nina Glick Schiller
17 Migrants Making Technology Markets 193 Tyler Rooker
18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City 210 Saskia Sassen
19 Nomadic Cities 221 David Pinder
20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City 235 Francis Dodsworth
21 Disease and Infection in the City 245 Simon Carter
22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space 255 Daniel J. Walkowitz
23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space 265 Brian Ladd
Part III City Affect 275
24 Reflections on Affect 277 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City 288 Steve Pile
26 The Future of New York’s Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11 304 Max Page
27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China 317 Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai’s Cinematic Hong Kong 327 Christoph Lindner
29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City 337 Lesley Caldwell
30 City Life and the Senses 347 John Urry
31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies 357 AbdouMaliq Simone
32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces 367 Andrew Hill
Part IV City Publics and Cultures 377
33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures 379 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
34 Reflections on the Public Realm 390 Richard Sennett
35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century? 398 Michael Keith
36 “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference 407 Kurt Iveson and Ruth Fincher
37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho 419 Judith R. Walkowitz
38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s 431 Frank Mort
39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City 442 Rob Stone
40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore 452 Lily Kong
41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City 463 Setha Low
42 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith 476 John Paul Jones III
43 Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle 488 Benjamin Rossiter and Katherine Gibson
Part V City Divisions and Differences 499
44 Reflections on Division and Difference 501 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
45 The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu 511 Mike Savage
46 Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities 521 Jenny Robinson and Sue Parnell
47 Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City 532 Jeremy Seekings
48 Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary 547 Ato Quayson
49 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance 561 Sharon Zukin
50 Gentrification of the City 571 Tom Slater
51 The Homosexuality of Cities 586 Julie Abraham 52 Gendering Urban Space 596 Jessica Ellen Sewell
53 Nights in the Global City 606 Sophie Body-Gendrot
Part VI City Politics and Planning 617 54 Reflections on Politics and Planning 619 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
55 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World 631 Ash Amin
56 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning 643 Peter Marcuse
57 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below 656 Anthony Vidler
58 Shaping Good Cities and Citizens 667 Evelyn S. Ruppert
59 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 679 Edward W. Soja
60 Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China’s Cities 690 John Friedmann
61 Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China’s Urbanism in the Making 701 Fulong Wu
62 Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City 713 Roger Keil
63 Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies 726 Kevin Ward
64 Making Up Global Urban Policies 738 Allan Cochrane
65 Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed? 747 Patrick Le Galès
Index 759