Thick Space
：Approaches to Metropolitanism
( Urban Studies )
Publication subTitle ：Approaches to Metropolitanism
Publication series ：Urban Studies
Author： Brantz Dorothee;Disko Sasha;Wagner-Kyora Georg
Publisher： transcript-Verlag
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9783839420430
Subject： C912.81 Urban Sociology
Keyword： 城市社会学,社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
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.
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