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The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory

Ida Susser (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-21933-0
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448 pages
January 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Acknowledgments.

Manuel Castells: Conceptualizing the City in the Information Age: Ida Susser.

Part I: A Theoretical Approach to the City in Advanced Capitalism:.

1. Urbanization (1972):.

Epistemological Introduction.

The Historical Process of Urbanization.

The Urban Phenomenon.

2. The Urban Ideology (1972):.

The Myth of Urban Culture.

From Urban Society to Urban Revolution.

The Urban Sub-cultures.

Part II: Social Movements and Urban Culture:.

3. Immigrant Workers and Class Struggles in Advanced Capitalism: The Western European Experience (1975).

4. Collective Consumption and Urban Contradictions in Advanced Capitalism (1978).

5. City and Culture: The San Francisco Experience (1983).

San Francisco: The Social Basis of Urban Quality.

Urban Poverty, Ethnic Minorities and Community Organization: The Experience of Neighbourhood Mobilization in San Francisco's Mission District.

Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation and Urban Structure: The Gay Community in San Francisco.

Methodological Appendix.

Part III: The City in the Information Age:.

6. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism (1989).

7. Information Technology, the Restructuring of Capital–Labor Relationships and the Rise of the Dual City (1989).

8. The Space of Flows (1996, second edition 2000).

9. The Culture of Cities in the Information Age (new essay ,1999).

Conclusion: Urban Sociology in the Twenty-first Century (new essay, 2000).

Bibliography of Urban and Regional Studies by Manuel Castells, 1967–2000.

Index.

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