Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism 9
5. Section 1: Conflicting Concepts
6. Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies 31
7. Deconstructing “Metropolis”: Critical Reflections on a European Concept 49
8. Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology 67
9. The Significance of the Metropolis 85
10. Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion 105
11. Section 2: Environments and Imaginations
12. History, Theory, and the Metropolis 125
13. An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis 141
14. Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20^th Century 165
15. Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis 213
16. Section 3: Social Spaces of Metropolitan Culture
17. Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios 239
18. Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space 257
19. Women and the Modern Metropolis 279
20. The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21^st Century America 307
21. Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology 333
22. The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin 357
23. Contributors 379