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A Companion to the City

ISBN: 978-0-631-21052-8

October 2000

Wiley-Blackwell

656 pages

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Description

A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective.

  • Indispensable companion for students of the City.
  • Multidisciplinary approach of interest across several fields.
  • Includes contributions from major scholars in the field.
About the Author
Gary Bridge is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and writes on issues of rationality, time, space and the city.

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Her recent books include Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (with Peter Murphy, 1997) and Postmodern Cities and Spaces (co-edited with Katherine Gibson, Blackwell, 1995).

Features

  • Indispensable companion for students of the City.
  • Multidisciplinary approach of interest across several fields.
  • Includes contributions from major scholars in the field.