The City Cultures Reader

Acknowledgements p.X, Introduction p.1, 1. Shaping Urban Culture: I. Forms and Spaces of the City. 1. Jane Jacobs: The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact' from The Death and Life of Great American Cities p.16, 2. Indra Kagis Mcewen: “Between Movement and Fixity: The Place of Order from Socrates' Ancestor p.18, 3. Rem Koolhaas: Singapore Songlines: Portrait of a Potemkin Metropolis. or Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa from Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL p.22, 4. Sarah Buie Market as Mandala: The Erotic Space of Commerce' Organization p.26, 5. Edward Robbins: Thinking Space / Seing Space: Thamesmead Revisited' Urban Design International p.29, 6. Ken-Ichi Sasaki: For Whom is City Design? Tactility versus Visuality' from H. Paetzold (ed.) City Life p.36, II Cultures and Urban Politics and Economics: 7. Murray Bookchin: Introduction from The Limits of the City p.48, 8. David Harvey: From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism Geografiska Annaler p.50, 9. Saskia Sassen: The New Inequalities within Cities' from Cities in a World Economy p.60, 10. Jonathan Charley: Industrialization and the City: Work, Speed-up, Urbanization'from I. Borden and D. Dunster (eds) Architecture and the Sites of History: Interpretations of Buildings and Cities p.67, 11. Jane M. Jacobs: ‘Conclusion' from Edge of Empire p.69, 12. Jeremy Seabrook: People of the City I' from In the Cities of the South p.74, 13. Sharon Zukin: 'Space and Symbols in an Age of Decline' from A. King (ed.) Re-presenting the City p.81, III. The Culture Industries: 14. Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception from Dialectic of Enlightenment p.95, 15. Patricia Phillips: 'Out of Order: The Public Art Machine' Artforum p.96, 16. Samir Al-Khalil: The Monument and the City from The Monument: Art, Vulgarity and Responsibility in Iraq p.103, 17. Raphael Samuel: Theme Parks - Why Not?' from Independent on Sunday p.106, 18. Dolores Hayden: The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History' from I. Borden, J. Kerr, A. Pivaro and J. Rendell (eds) Strangely Familiar p.109, 19. Joost Smiers: European Cities - First Sow, then Reap Rough Weather p.111, IV. Culture and Technologies: 20. Lewis Mumford: The Monastery and the Clock' from The Human Prospect p.121, 21. Archigram: 'Instant City’ p.125, from P. Cook et al. (eds) Archigram p.125, 22. Nigel Thrift: 'A Hyperactive World' from R. J. Johnston, P. J. Taylor and M. J. Watts (eds) Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century p.129, 23. Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin: The Social and Cultural Life of the City' from Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places p.134, 2. Living Urban Culture: V Everyday Life: 24. Ernst Bloch: Ludwigshafen-Mannheim' from Heritage of our Times p.142, 25. Siegfried Kracauer 1963: The Hotel Lobby' from The Mass Ornament p.145, 26. Elizabeth Wilson: World Cities' from The Sphinx in the City p.149, 27. Bernard Tschumi: Spaces and Events' from Architecture and Disjunction p.154, 28. K. Evans, I. Taylor and P. Fraser: “Shop Til You Drop” from A Tale of Two Cities: Global Change, Local Feeling and Everyday Life in the North of England p.158, VI. Memory, Imagination and Identity: 29. Gaston Bachelard: The House. From Cellar to Garret. The Significance of the Hut' from The Poetics of Space p.166, 30. Kenneth Frampton: Towards a Critical Regionalism' from H. Foster (ed.) Postmodern Culture p.168, 31 Aldo Rossi: "Typological Questions' and The Collective Memory from The Architecture of the City p.171, 32. Patrick Wright: 'Abysmal Heights from A Journey Through Ruins: A Keyhole Portrait of British Postwar Life and Culture p.174, 33. Frank Mort: Boulevards for the Fashionable and Famous from Cultures of Consumption: Commerce, Masculinities and Social Space in Late Twentieth-century Britain p.180, 34. Farha Ghannam: Re-imagining the Global: Relocation and Local Identities in Cairo' from A. Oncu and P. Weyland (eds) Space, Culture and Power p.185, VII. Representations of the City: 35. Roland Barthes: Center-City, Empty Center' and 'No Address' from Empire of Signs p.195, 36. Henri Lefebvre Plan of the Present Work' and 'Social Space' from The Production of Space p.197, 37 Rosalyn Deutsche: 'Alternative Space' from B. Wallis (ed.) If You Lived Here p.200, 38. Heinz Paetzold The Philosophical Notion of the City' from H. Pactzold (ed.) City Life p.204, 39. Nigel Coates: Brief Encounters' from I. Borden, J. Kerr and J. Rendell with A. Pivaro (eds) The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space (2000) p.221, VII. Cultures and Ecology: 40. Christian Schulz: Place' AA Quarterly p.228, 41. Hassan Fathy; Palaces of Mud' Resurgence p.232, 42. William McDonough: The Hannover Principles'from C. Jencks and K. Kropf (eds) Theories and Manifestos of Contemporary Architecture p.236, 43. Victor Papanek: Designing for a Safer Future' from The Green Imperative p.237, 44. Michael Hough: Urban Ecology: A Basis for Shaping Cities' from Cities and Natural Process p.242, 3. Negotiating Urban Cultures: IX Social Justice: 45 Ivan Illich: The Dirt of Cities', The Aura of Cities', The Smell of the Dead' and Utopia of an Odorless City from H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness p.249, 46. Herman Hertzberger: The Public Realm' Architecture and Urbanism p.253, 47. Neil Smith: Class Struggle on Avenue B'": The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West' from The New Urban Frontier p.256, 48. Rajeev Patel: Urban Violence: An Overview' from J. Beall (ed.) A City for All p.261, X. Cultures of Resistance and Transgression: 49. David Sibley: 'Border Crossings' from Geographies of Exclusion p.269, 50. George Mckay: Eco-Rads on the Road' from Senseless Acts of Beauty p.256, 51. Edward W. Soja: The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: On Spuistraat, Amsterdam' from I. Borden, J. Kerr, A. Pivaro and J. Rendell (eds) Strangely Familiar p.280, 52. Susana Torre: Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo from D. Agrest, P. Conway and L. K. Weisman (eds) The Sex of Architecture p.282, XI Utopia and Dystopia; 53. 3 Judith Shklar: The Political Theory of Utopia: From Melancholy to Nostalgia' from E. E. Manuel (ed.) Utopias and Utopian Thought p.289, 54 Marshall Berman:Robert Moses: The Expressway World from All That Is Solid Melts Into Air p.297, 55. Jon Bird: Dystopia on the Thames' from J. Bird, B. Curtis, T. Putnam, G. Robertson and L. Tickner (eds) Mapping the Futures p.303, 56. Lebbeus Woods: Everyday War' from P. Lang (ed.) Mortal City p.310, XII. Possible Futures: 57. Corinne Mclaughlin and Gordon Davidson: Arcosanti: Urban “Arcology" Ecologically Sound Architecture from Builders of the Dawn p.317, 58. William Mitchell: Soft Cities' Architectural Design p.320, 59. Rem Koolhaas: Whatever Happened to Urbanism?' from Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL p.330, 60. Anne Pendleton-Jullian: Extract from The Road That is Not a Road- The Open City, Ritoque, Chile p.330, Index p.333

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