Readings in urban theory - Fainstein, Susan S. 1938-; Campbell, Scott 1958- (Cambridge, Massachusetts Blackwell Publishers, 1996)
Part I. The changing urban and regional system -- Bourgeois Utopias: visions of Suburbia / Robert Fishman -- The global city / Saskia Sassen -- The informational mode of development and the restructuring of capitalism / Manuel Castells -- The economics of postwar regional disparity / Ann R. Markusen -- Reading the map: a theory of military-industrial places / Ann R. Markusen, Peter Hall, Scott campbell, and Sabina Deitrick -- The changing world economy and urban restructuring / Susan S. Fainstein -- Part II. The truly disadvantaged: the hidden agenda / William Julius Wilson -- Race, class, and segregation: discourses about African Americans / Norman Fainstein -- Toward greater racial diversity in the Suburbs / W. Dennis Keating -- Part III. The politics of redevelopment, public-private partnerships, and gentrification -- Partnership and the pursuit of the private city / Gregory D. Squires -- The city as a growth machine / John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch -- Gentrification, the frontier, and the restructuring of urban space / Neil Smith -- Part IV. The city and contemporary culture -- Voices of decline / Robert A. Beauregard -- See you in Disneyland / Michael Sorkin -- Social justice, postmodernism, and the city / David Harvey
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Cities and towns; Urban economics