The Urban Moment

The modern city extends beyond its physical borders, pervading all aspects of our society. Celebrating 30 years of Sage's Urban Affairs Review, this book examines the state of the city as we enter the 21st century. From an interdisciplinary perspective, critical urban theorists explore a variety of discourses for representing the contemporary city. Considering the city's social and physical articulations, the prospects for continued democracy and civic engagement, and interpretations of a `good city', these essays represent the cutting edge of urban studies.

Explores a variety of multidisciplinary discourses for representing the contemporary city.

INTRODUCTIONImagined Cities, Engaged Citizens - S Body-Gendrot and R A BeauregardPART ONE: DILEMMAS OF REPRESENTATIONInvitation to a Postmodern Urbanism - S Flusty and M DearCrossing Cybersities - M C Boyer Urban Regions and the Cyberspace MatrixThe Post-City Challenge - T PaquotPART TWO: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVESWhose City Is It? - S Sassen Globalization and the Formation of New ClaimsTransnationalism and the City - M P SmithThe Urban World Through A South African Prism - A MabinPART THREE: CIVIC ENGAGEMENTA City For Whom? - G Martinotti Transients and Public Life in the Second Generation MetropolisWhich New Urbanism? - N Smith New York City and the Revanchist 1990sUrban Movements and Urban Theory in the Late 20th-Century City - M MayerPART FOUR: PRESCRIPTIVE VISIONS(Promised) Scenes of Urbanity - C RubyCan We Make the Cities We Want? - S S FainsteinThe Spaces of Democracy - R Sennett