Cities : reimagining the urban / Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift.

Main entry:

Amin, Ash.

Title & Author:

Cities : reimagining the urban / Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift.

Publication:

Cambridge : Polity, 2002.

Description:

184 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Legibility of the Everyday City -- Propinquity and Flow in the City -- Cities in a Distanciated Economy -- The Machinic City -- Powerful Cities -- The Democratic City -- Afterword: Testing New Ground -- References -- Index.

Summary:

Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the countryside has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanisation as a way of life.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0745624138
9780745624136
0745624146 (pbk.)
9780745624143 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
cities.
urban sociology.
Stadtforschung
Stadtgeografie
Stadtsoziologie
Urbanität
Stadt
Metropole
Stadssociologie.
Stadscultuur.

Added entries:

Thrift, Nigel, 1949-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222676
Call No.: HT119 .A45 2002
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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