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Thick Space

Approaches to Metropolitanism
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Published/Copyright: 2014

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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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ORLIS, 3 (2014)

http://blog.byhistorie.dk,01.07.2014, Mikkel Thelle

Urban Studies, 52/5 (2015), David Wachsmuth

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgements

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    Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism

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    Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko and Georg Wagner-Kyora
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  • Section 1: Conflicting Concepts
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    Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies

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    Heinz Reif
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    Deconstructing “Metropolis”: Critical Reflections on a European Concept

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    Ignacio Farías and Susanne Stemmler
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    Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology

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    Jan Kemper
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    The Significance of the Metropolis

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    Richard Rodger
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    Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion

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    Margit Mayer
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  • Section 2: Environments and Imaginations
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    History, Theory, and the Metropolis

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    Thomas Bender
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    An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis

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    Stefan Höhne
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    Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20th Century

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    Harold L. Platt
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    Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis

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    Sonja Dümpelmann
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  • Section 3: Social Spaces of Metropolitan Culture
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    Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios

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    Wolfgang Kaschuba
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    Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space

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    Laura Frahm
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    Women and the Modern Metropolis

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    Despina Stratigakos
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    The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21st Century America

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    Kristina Graaff
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    Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology

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    Alexa Färber
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    The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin

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    Tim Opitz
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    Contributors

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Keywords for this book
Metropolis; Metropolis; Metropolitanism; Metropolitanism; Media; Media; Urban Space; Urban Space; Theory of Urban Studies; Theory of Urban Studies; Urbanity; Urbanity; Space; Space; Urban Studies; Urban Studies; Sociology; Sociology
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