Urban Assemblages by Thomas Bender
This book proposes and its various chapters offer demonstrations importing into urban studies a body of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network Theory (ANT).-
Ordinary Cities
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In the Nature of Cities
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Small Cities
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Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities
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Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene
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Cities, Nationalism and Democratization
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Urban Cosmopolitics
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Between Bohemia and Suburbia
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The Urban Condition
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Cities in Globalization
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Cities and Race
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Global Metropolitan
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Reason in the City of Difference
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Why Transportation Fails
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Searching for the Just City
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Life in the Megalopolis
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City Publics
Thomas Bender is University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is a historian of the United States. His books include Toward an Urban Vision, The Unfinished City and he has coedited Urban Imaginaries. He also writes on urban design and development issues for various publications, including The New York Times and the Harvard Design Magazine
Ignacio Faras holds a PhD in European Anthropology of the Humboldt University of Berlin, is Senior Research Fellow of the Social Science Research Center Berlin and Associate Researcher at the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. His main research topics include social and cultural theory, cultural urban studies, economic sociology and anthropology of tourism
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415486620 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415486629 |
| Title | Urban Assemblages |
| Author | Thomas Bender |
| Series | Questioning Cities |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2009-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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