Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism

Published by transcript Verlag 2012

Thick Space

Approaches to Metropolitanism

Edited by: Dorothee Brantz , Sasha Disko and Georg Wagner-Kyora

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839420430

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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).

Reviews

Reviewed in:

ORLIS, 3 (2014)
http://blog.byhistorie.dk,01.07.2014, Mikkel Thelle
Urban Studies, 52/5 (2015), David Wachsmuth

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko and Georg Wagner-Kyora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Section 1: Conflicting Concepts
Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies Heinz Reif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Deconstructing “Metropolis”: Critical Reflections on a European Concept Ignacio Farías and Susanne Stemmler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology Jan Kemper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
The Significance of the Metropolis Richard Rodger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion Margit Mayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Section 2: Environments and Imaginations
History, Theory, and the Metropolis Thomas Bender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis Stefan Höhne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20^th Century Harold L. Platt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis Sonja Dümpelmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Section 3: Social Spaces of Metropolitan Culture
Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios Wolfgang Kaschuba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space Laura Frahm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Women and the Modern Metropolis Despina Stratigakos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21^st Century America Kristina Graaff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology Alexa Färber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin Tim Opitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 384
Keywords: Metropolitanism; Media; Urban Space; Theory of Urban Studies; Urbanity; Space; Urban Studies; Sociology

eBook

Published: March 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839420430