Urban Theory – A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century
Buchpräsentation mit Talja Blokland und Alan Harding am Montag, den 30.06.2014 // 18:00 – 20:00 Uhr
Anders als gewohnt wird am heutigen Montag Abend das Think&Drink-Kolloquium des Lehrbereichs Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie und des Georg-Simmel-Zentrums an der HU Berlin nicht für einen Gastvortrag sondern für eine Buchpräsentation genutzt. Dabei stellen Talja Blokland stellt dabei zusammen mit Co-Autor Alan Harding (University of Liverpool) das gemeinsame Lehrbuch Urban Theory vor:
This T&D session, Alan Harding and Talja Blokland will launch their new book Urban Theory: A Critical Introduction to Power, Cities and Urbanism in the 21st Century starting from the simple question ‘what is s Urban Theory?’ this book asks how urban theory can be used to understand our urban experiences, experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world.This book explains relations between urban theory and modernity – the foundational concept in urban studies – in key ideas of the Chicago School, in spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and ‘radical‘ approaches like Marxism, cities and the transition from industrial to informational economies, globalization, the importance of urban growth machine and urban regime theory, the city as an “actor”, spatial expressions of inequality – understood horizontally and vertically – and key ideas like segregation, ghettoization, suburbanization, gentrification, and “neighbourhood effects”, socio-cultural spatial expressions of difference and key concepts like gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, public space; “culturalist” perspectives on identity, lifestyle, subculture
Das Kolloquium findet in der Vorlesungszeit immer Montags von 18 bis 20 Uhr in Raum 002 in der Universitätsstraße 3b statt.
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