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Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture. Reviewed in: ORLIS, 3 (2014) http://blog.byhistorie.dk,01.07.2014, Mikkel Thelle Urban Studies, 52/5 (2015), David Wachsmuth

Metropolis; Metropolitanism; Media; Urban Space; Theory of Urban Studies; Urbanity; Space; Urban Studies; Sociology --- Media. --- Metropolitanism. --- Sociology. --- Space. --- Theory of Urban Studies. --- Urban Space. --- Urban Studies. --- Urbanity.

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Commonly used and designed open spaces are anchor points in the city and a possible response to the consequences of urbanization and climate change, as well as to the presence of social and cultural differences. This book explores the role of add-ons in urban open spaces: specific components for the cultivation of food, water, energy, and material production, as well as for economic and social resources. The book asks how these added elements create more resilient and sustainable urban spaces, by responding to the needs and preferences of residents and by forming connections to the surrounding urban environment. Scientific texts and opinion papers of international experts provide a unique interdisciplinary discourse depicting the diversity of add-ons from a range of micro- and macro-perspectives, and offering strategies for collaborative, multi-coded urban spaces at the intersection of architecture and open space planning. Gemeinschaftlich genutzte und gestaltete Freiräume sind Ankerpunkte in der Stadt und eine mögliche Antwort auf die Folgen von Urbanisierung und Klimawandel sowie auf soziale und kulturelle Unterschiede. Das Buch untersucht die Rolle von Add-ons in urbanen Freiräumen: spezifischen Nutzungskomponenten zur Produktion von Nahrungsmitteln, Wasser, Energie und Materialien sowie von wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Ressourcen. Es fragt, inwieweit diese hinzugefügten Bestandteile urbane Räume resilienter und nachhaltiger machen können, indem sie auf die Bedürfnisse und Vorlieben der Nachbarschaft reagieren und mit dem umgebenden Stadtraum Verknüpfungen eingehen. Wissenschaftliche Texte und Stellungnahmen internationaler Expert*innen bilden einen einzigartigen interdisziplinären Diskurs ab, der die Vielfalt an Add-ons in unterschiedliche Mikro- und Makroperspektiven darstellt und Strategien für kollaborative, multicodierte Stadträume an der Schnittstelle von Architektur und Freiraumplanung aufzeigt.

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- Public Space. --- Urban Gardening. --- Urban Space. --- Urban planning.

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Há mundos sociais que, pelo secretismo das suas práticas, são simultaneamente alvo de grande fascínio e atenção e de grande preconceito e desconhecimento. O “mundo da droga” é um deles. A partir da sua investigação etnográfica, o autor propõe-nos neste livro um percurso pelos territórios psicotrópicos: zonas de periferia urbana onde se vive o quotidiano da venda e do consumo das substâncias psicoativas ilegais. Num estilo mais próximo da narrativa do que do texto académico, somos levados aos lugares onde a experiência comum de cidade se interrompe, dando passo a uma sociabilidade de rua que tem nas drogas o seu elemento central. O livro é, afinal, a proposta de um olhar próximo e interior sobre essa categoria distante dos “mundos marginais”, procurando esclarecer os mecanismos que operam na produção das traseiras da cidade e dos seus atores de margem.

Urban Studies --- droga --- espaço urbano --- etnografia --- ambiente social --- drogue --- environnement social --- espace urbain --- ethnographie --- drugs --- urban space --- social environment --- ethnography

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The increasing platformisation of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- City. --- Cultural Geography. --- Economic Sociology. --- Economy. --- Gig Economy. --- Inequalities. --- Internet. --- Platform Economy. --- Right To the City. --- Sociology. --- Urban Infrastructures. --- Urban Space. --- Urban Studies.

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Post-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no ground, necessity, or objective rationale for human political existence or action. The edited volume puts contemporary debates arising from the »spatial turn« in cultural and social sciences in a dialogue with post-foundational theories of space and place to devise post-foundationalism as radical approach to urban studies. This approach enables us to think about space not only as socially produced, but also as crucially marked by conflict, radical negativity, and absence. The contributors undertake a (re-)reading of key spatial and/or post-foundational theorists to introduce their respective understandings of politics and space, and offer examples of post-foundationalist empirical analyses of urban protests, spatial occupation, and social movements.

Cultural Geography. --- Geography. --- Human geography. --- Metropolitan areas. --- Post-Foundationalism. --- Radical Geography. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. --- Social Geography. --- Space. --- Spatial Theory. --- Urban Protest. --- Urban Space. --- Urban geography.