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Parker, Simon Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City London and New York: Routledge, 2004. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-415-24592-3 pbk
In this book, Simon Parker, (Lecturer in Politics at the University of York [U.K.]), intends to bring together both classic and contemporary approaches to urban research, ostensibly--as be succinctly puts it--to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe each other.
In the opening chapter, "Encountering the City", Parker provides an introduction to urban theory--first asking why urban theory matters, then briefly discussing its development--before outlining the plan of the book.
The second chapter explores the classic "Foundations of Urban Theory" by focussing on four main German and French theorists. Max Weber's views of the city... |
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