Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism
Dorothee Brantz · Sasha Disko · Georg Wagner-Kyora
Mar 2014 · transcript Verlag
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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.
About the author
Dorothee Brantz is a professor of urban environmental history and the director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research interests include urban environmental history, the history of war and peace, and the different temporalities of the urban. Sasha Disko is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS). Georg Wagner-Kyora is an urban historian who is affiliated with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS).
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