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The Urban Moment
Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City

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Volume: 49

September 1999 | 312 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The modern city extends beyond its physical borders, pervading all aspects of our society. From corporate globalization and political upheaval to educational reform and ethnic social movements, the city is the first to experience massive change. While less populous regions look on for inspiration, the city acts and reacts, creating and shaping the world's future. Celebrating 30 years of Sage's Urban Affairs Reviews, volume editors Robert A. Beauregard and Sophie Body-Gendrot, with a gathering of the best and brightest in urban scholarship, share their passion for the city as we approach the 21st century. From an interdisciplinary perspective, critical urban theorists explore a variety of discourses for representing the contemporary city. Considering the city's social and physical articulations, the prospects for continued democracy and civic engagement, and interpretations of a "good city," these essays represent the cutting edge of urban studies.

The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City is a provocative examination of urban theory, offering European, North American, and South American perspectives. An exciting and comprehensive addition to the series, this book is critical for Urban Studies scholars as well as those studying the city in sociological, political, or cultural disciplines.


 
INTRODUCTION
S Body-Gendrot and R A Beauregard
Imagined Cities, Engaged Citizens
 
PART ONE: DILEMMAS OF REPRESENTATION
S Flusty and M Dear
Invitation to a Postmodern Urbanism
M C Boyer
Crossing Cybersities
Urban Regions and the Cyberspace Matrix

 
T Paquot
The Post-City Challenge
 
PART TWO: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
S Sassen
Whose City Is It?
Globalization and the Formation of New Claims

 
M P Smith
Transnationalism and the City
A Mabin
The Urban World Through A South African Prism
 
PART THREE: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
G Martinotti
A City For Whom?
Transients and Public Life in the Second Generation Metropolis

 
N Smith
Which New Urbanism?
New York City and the Revanchist 1990s

 
M Mayer
Urban Movements and Urban Theory in the Late 20th-Century City
 
PART FOUR: PRESCRIPTIVE VISIONS
C Ruby
(Promised) Scenes of Urbanity
S S Fainstein
Can We Make the Cities We Want?
R Sennett
The Spaces of Democracy

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