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