Cities

Patrick Le Galès () and Mathieu Zagrodzki ()
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Patrick Le Galès: CEVIPOF - Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Mathieu Zagrodzki: CEVIPOF - Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: From the integrated medieval European cities surrounded by walls, to the colonial Boston or the rapidly growing Phoenix, Las Vegas, or South East London, the category 'city' comprises different densities, borders, and dimensions; for instance: the material city of walls, squares, house, roads, lights, utilities, buildings, waste and physical infrastructure; the cultural city in terms of imagination, difference, representations, ideas, symbols, arts, texts, senses, religion, and aesthetics; the politics and policies of the city in terms of domination, power, governmet, mobilization, welfare, and education; the social city of riots, ethnic, economic, or gender inequalities, everyday life and social movements; the economy of the city:division of labor, scale, production, consumption, trade... [First lines]

Keywords: European cities; American metropolises; Global city; Urban and social structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Transatlantic Divide, Oxford University Press, pp.218 - 245, 2007, 9780199204533

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