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.
Deconstructing "Metropolis": Critical Reflections on a European Concept Kein Zugriff Seiten 49 - 66 Ignacio Farías, Susanne Stemmler
Explanans vs. Explanandum, Freedom vs. Cohesion: The Conceptual Structure of Urban Sociology Kein Zugriff Seiten 67 - 84 Jan Kemper
The Significance of the Metropolis Kein Zugriff Seiten 85 - 104 Richard Rodger
Metropolitan Research from a Transatlantic Perspective: Differences, Similarities, and Conceptual Diffusion Kein Zugriff Seiten 105 - 122 Margit Mayer
History, Theory, and the Metropolis Kein Zugriff Seiten 125 - 140 Despina Stratigakos, Kristina Graaff, Richard Rodger, Sonja Dümpelmann, Stefan Höhne, Wolfgang Kaschuba, Alexa Färber, Tim Opitz, Jan Kemper, Heinz Reif, Margit Mayer, Laura Frahm, Susanne Stemmler
An Endless Flow of Machines to Serve the City: Infrastructural Assemblages and the Quest for the Metropolis Kein Zugriff Seiten 141 - 164 Stefan Höhne
Planning Modernism: Growing the Organic City in the 20<sup>th</sup> Century Kein Zugriff Seiten 165 - 212 Despina Stratigakos, Kristina Graaff, Richard Rodger, Sonja Dümpelmann, Stefan Höhne, Wolfgang Kaschuba, Alexa Färber, Tim Opitz, Jan Kemper, Heinz Reif, Margit Mayer, Laura Frahm, Susanne Stemmler
Layered Landscapes: Parks and Gardens in the Metropolis Kein Zugriff Seiten 213 - 236 Sonja Dümpelmann
Berlin Street Life: Scenes and Scenarios Kein Zugriff Seiten 239 - 256 Wolfgang Kaschuba
Metropolis in Transformation: Cinematic Topologies of Urban Space Kein Zugriff Seiten 257 - 278 Laura Frahm
Women and the Modern Metropolis Kein Zugriff Seiten 279 - 306 Despina Stratigakos
The Street-Prison Symbiosis: Urban Segregation and Popular Black Fiction in 21<sup>st</sup> Century America Kein Zugriff Seiten 307 - 332 Kristina Graaff
Urban Ethnicity, World City, and the Hookah: The Potential of Thick-Thin Descriptions in Urban Anthropology Kein Zugriff Seiten 333 - 356 Alexa Färber
The Global, Imperial Metropolis: Ideas from 1873 Berlin Kein Zugriff Seiten 357 - 378 Tim Opitz
Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 379 - 384 Sasha Disko, Dorothee Brantz, Georg Wagner-Kyora
