A companion to the city

Description:

"A Companion to the City sets out to think about cities in more textured ways and brings together scholars from a range of fields to create a multidisciplinary approach to cities. Academics from disciplines as diverse as film studies and economics, philosophy and geography, turn their attention to the city and generate exciting new ways of thinking." "This Companion 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."--Jacket.

subjects: Cities and towns,  Cross-cultural studies,  Villes,  Études transculturelles,  Cidades,  Geografia urbana,  Política urbana