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Thick space : approaches to metropolitanism
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- Creator
- Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko, Georg Wagner-Kyora (eds.)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Bielefeld : Transcript ; Piscataway, NJ : [US Distribution by] Transaction Publishers, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 383 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783837620436, 3837620433
- OCLC
- ocn793224183
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism / Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko, and Georg Wagner-Kyora -- Metropolises: History, Concepts, Methodologies / Heinz Reif -- Deconstructing "Metropolis:" Critical Reflections on a European Concept / Ignacio Farias and Susanne Stemmler -- Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology / Jan Kemper -- The Significance of the Metropolis / Richard Rodger -- Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion / MargitMayer -- History, Theory, and the Metropolis / Thomas Bender -- An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis / StefanHohne -- Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20th Century / Harold L. Piatt -- Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis / Sonja Diimpelmann -- Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios / Wolfgang Kaschuba -- Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space / Laura Frahm -- Women and the Modern Metropolis / Despina Stratigakos -- The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21st Century America / Kristina Graaff -- Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology / Alexa Farber -- The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin / Tim Opitz