Title & Author:

Critical urban studies : new directions / edited by Jonathan S. Davies and David L. Imbroscio ; foreword by Clarence N. Stone.

Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.

Description:

xiii, 220 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
City / Elvin Wyly -- Critical perspectives on the city: constructivist, interpretive analysis of urban politics / Mara S. Sidney -- Seeing like a city: how to urbanize political science / Warren Magnusson -- Reflections on urbanity as an object of study and a critical epistemology / Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Back to the future: Marxism and urban politics / Jonathan S. Davies -- Keeping it critical: resisting the allure of the mainstream / David L. Imbroscio -- The trouble with diversity / Jeff Spinner-Halev -- Do multicultural cities help equality? / Yasminah Beebeejaun -- Why do we want mixed-income housing and neighborhoods? / James DeFilippis and Jim Fraser -- Dispersal as anti-poverty policy / Edward G. Goetz and Karen Chapple -- Beyond sprawl and anti-sprawl / Thad Williamson.

Summary:

This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholar-ship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors of late, particularly in mainstream political science, where it has been accused of parochialism and insularity. Critical Urban Studies offers a sharp repudiation of this critique, reasserting the need for critical urban scholarship and demonstrating the fundamental importance of urban studies for understanding and changing contemporary social life. Contributors to the volume identify an orthodox perspective in the field, subject it to critique, and map out a future research agenda for the field. The result is a series of inventive essays pointing scholars and students to the major theoretical and policy challenges facing urbanists and other critical social scientists. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9781438433059 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
1438433050 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9781438433066 (pbk.)
1438433069 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Study and teaching.
Sociology, Urban Study and teaching.
Urban policy Study and teaching.
Sociologie urbaine Étude et enseignement.
Politique urbaine Étude et enseignement.
Society.
Städer studier och undervisning.
Stadssociologi studier och undervisning.
Urban politik studier och undervisning.

Added entries:

Davies, Jonathan S.
Imbroscio, David L.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288875
Call No.: BIB 230855
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available