Ronan Paddison & Eugene McCann 
Cities and Social Change [EPUB ebook] 
Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism

This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing neoliberal restructuring, and grapples with profound questions and challenging policy considerations about diversity, equity, and justice.  A stimulant to debate in any undergraduate urban studies classroom, this book will inspire a new generation of urban social scholars.


– Alison Bain, York University





‘Stages a lively encounter with different understandings of urban production and experience, and does so by bringing together an exciting group of scholars working across a diversity of theoretical and geographical contexts. The book focuses on some of the central conceptual and political challenges of contemporary cities, including inequality and poverty, justice and democracy, and everyday life and urban imaginaries, providing a critical platform through which to ask how we might work towards alternative forms of urban living.’

– Colin Mc Farlane Durham University



What is the city? What is the nature of living in the city? This new textbook provides students with an in-depth understanding of the central issues associated with the city and how living in a city impacts its inhabitants.

Theoretically informed and thematically rich, the book is edited by leading scholars in the field and contains an eminent, international cast of contributors and contributions. It provides a critical analysis of the key thinkers, themes and paradigms dealing with the relationship between the built environment and urban life. It includes illustrative case studies, questions for discussion, further reading and web links.

Examining the contradictions, conflicts and complexities of city living, the book is an essential resource for students looking to get to grip with the different theoretical and substantive approaches that make up the diverse and rich study of the city and urban life.

Mục lục

Section 1: Theorising the City

Chapter 1: Encountering the City – Multiple Perspectives on Urban Social Change – Ronan Paddison and Eugene Mc Cann

Chapter 2: Representing and Imagining the City – Regan Koch and Alan Latham

Section 2: Experiencing the City

Chapter 3: The ‘New’ Middle Class, Lifestyle and the ‘New’ Gentrified City – Loretta Lees

Chapter 4: Being Poor in the City – Geoff De Verteuil

Chapter 5: Living with Difference : Geographies of Encounter – Gill Valentine

Chapter 6: The Everyday City of the Senses – Monica Degen

Section 3: The Liveable City

Chapter 7: Dis/Order and the Regulation of Urban Space – Steven Herbert and Tiffany Grobelski

Chapter 8: Walling the City – Gordon Macleod

Chapter 9: Health and the City – Robin Kearns and Graham Moon

Chapter 10: Cities, Nature and Sustainability – Eric Swngedouw and Ian Cook

Chapter 11: Just Cities – James de Filipis and Juan Rivero

Section 4: Reflections on Cities and Social Change

Chapter 12: The Good City – Ananya Roy

Chapter 13: Conclusions: Engaging the Urban World – Ronan Paddison and Eugene Mc Cann

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Eugene Mc Cann is Professor in the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on the ways in which policies, especially urban policies, are circulated among communities of practitioners across the global and how these ′policy mobilities′ are related to urban politics.