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Reimagining the Urban
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The book introduces an innovative sociology of the city, spreading urban life across varied sites and flows, including non-human activities and distant connections. It explores the consequences of this perspective in relation to power, economy and democracy, making complex ideas accessible to a broad academic audience.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars interested in sociology, geography, urban studies, cultural studies and politics, especially those seeking contemporary and critical insights into urban life and theory.
This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the countryside has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of life.
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This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city.
Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanisation as a way of life.
They outline an innovative sociology of the city that scatters urban life along a series of sites and circulations, reinstating previously suppressed areas of contemporary urban life: from the presence of non-human activity to the centrality of distant connections. The implications of this viewpoint are traced through a series of chapters on power, economy and democracy.
This concise and accessible book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, geography, urban studies, cultural studies and politics.
Cities by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift offers insightful perspectives that challenge traditional urban theories and highlight the complexities of modern urban life.
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Times Higher Education praises the book as "an important recent intervention" that reimagines cities as "connected, distributed and plural," focusing on the everyday alongside major issues. Sociology calls it "an intellectual tour-de-force" that introduces a provocative 'post-urban sociology' full of novel perspectives. John Urry from Lancaster University describes it as "a wonderfully incisive dissection of new configurations of 'cities' in the contemporary world."
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ISBN: 9780745624143
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 March 2002
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 299g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Ash Amin is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham.
Nigel Thrift is Professor of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.
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