Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, The Blackwell City Reader , Second Edition features a comprehensive selection of multidisciplinary readings relating to the analysis and experience of global cities.

Foreword ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I Materialities 3  Introducing Materialities 5 1 The Great Towns 11 Friedrich Engels 2 Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 17 William Cronon 3 The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 32David Harvey 4 An Introduction to the Information Age 40Manuel Castells 5 Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form 49Allen J. Scott 6 The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities 60Ash Amin 7 The Making of Global City Regions: Mumbai: The Mega-City of a Poor Country 72Sujata Patel 8 Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale 79Erik Swyngedouw and Nikolas C. Heynen 9 Moving Cities: Rethinking the Materialities of Urban Geographies 86Alan Latham and Derek P. McCormack Part II Mobilities 95  Introducing Mobilities 97 10 The Metropolis and Mental Life 103Georg Simmel 11 The Practice of Everyday Life 111Michel de Certeau 12 The Arcades Project 119Walter Benjamin 13 The Global City: Introducing a Concept 126Saskia Sassen 14 Postborder Cities, Postborder World: The Rise of Bajalta California 133Michael Dear and Héctor Manuel Lucero 15 Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger 138Arjun Appadurai 16 Connections 144John Urry 17 Driving in the City 152Nigel Thrift 18 Urban Transport in Chinese Cities: The Impact on the Urban Poor 159Zhong-Ren Peng and Yi Zhu Part III Division and Difference 169  Introducing Division and Difference 171 19 The Continuing Causes of Segregation 177Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton 20 The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy 186William Julius Wilson 21 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 193Mike Davis 22 After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City 201Neil Smith 23 The S.U.V. Model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the “Purely Atomic” Individual 211Don Mitchell 24 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 221Michel Foucault 25 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference 228Iris Marion Young 26 City A/Genders 237Sophie Watson 27 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem 243George Chauncey Part IV Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 253  Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures 255 28 The Public Realm 261Richard Sennett 29 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 273Jane Jacobs 30 China Urban: Health, Wealth and the Good Life 278Nancy N. Chen 31 Spatializing Culture: The Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica 284Setha M. Low 32 Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World 293Sharon Zukin 33 City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 303Judith R. Walkowitz 34 Homo Palpitans: Balzac’s Novels and Urban Personality 311Franco Moretti 35 Writing the City 317Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley 36 Imagining the Modern City: Light in Dark Spaces 323James Donald Part V Urban Politics and Planning 331  Introducing Urban Politics and Planning 333 37 The Growth of the City 339Ernest W. Burgess 38 The City of Tomorrow and its Planning 345Le Corbusier 39 The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília 355James Holston 40 Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy 365Anthony D. King 41 Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 374Edward W. Soja 42 How to Study Urban Political Power 382John Hull Mollenkopf 43 Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place 391John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch 44 New Directions in Planning Theory 402Susan S. Fainstein 45 Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism” 411Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore 46 China’s Urban Transition: Backward into the Future 419John Friedmann 47 Planning the Competitive City-Region: The Emergence of Strategic Development Plan in China 428Fulong Wu and Jingxing Zhang Index 433

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, this new edition of The Blackwell City Reader brings together a wide range of essential readings relating to the analysis and experience of cities across the globe. Selections are carefully gathered from a variety of academic disciplines ranging from architecture, sociology, and literature to cultural studies, philosophy, and even psychoanalysis to provide the most diverse perspectives and in-depth coverage of the field. The new edition incorporates major developments in the study of materialities and mobilities, two areas at the heart of many contemporary debates; it also features enhanced coverage on non-Western cities that reflect recent growth trends, especially in Asia, China, and India, making it the most international reader of its kind. The Blackwell City Reader, Second Edition combines established and novel readings from a wide range of theoretical perspectives and geographical locales to provide an indispensable source for the most up-to-date thinking on cities of today and tomorrow.

“This new edition covers so much terrain of the urban scholarship that it is truly a very comprehensive and interdisciplinary reader for any course on cities and urban studies.” —Xiangming Chen, Trinity College “A rich and varied collection of important articles on cities. Selections range from older classic pieces to more recent insights, and the book provides a nice mix of European and American views of cities, whilst including writings about other areas of the world, especially China. Altogether this is an excellent and exciting collection of major writings.” —Anthony M. Orum, University of Illinois “The second edition of The Blackwell City Reader is even better than the first – and that was a milestone. The Reader covers the full spectrum of approaches to the city concisely but with real authority. As a result, it is a vital introduction to thinking about cities in a time when global problems and urban problems have become effectively interchangeable.” —Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick

Source Acknowledgments Editors? introduction Part I: Materialities Part II: Mobilities Part III: Division and Difference Part IV: Urban publics and urban cultures Part V: Urban Politics and Planning