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Tables of Contents for The Transformation of Cities
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
viii
Preface
x
Acknowledgements
xii
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
1
12
An Urban Millennium
1
6
Urban Analysis and Urban Transformation
7
2
Structure of the Book
9
4
Industrial-Modern Cities
13
28
Origins and Growth of the Pre-industrial City
13
2
Industrial City
15
3
Suburban Development in First-world Cities during the Twentieth Century
18
4
Explanations for the Growth and Shape of the Industrial-Modern City
22
17
Summary
39
2
Demographic Change and the City
41
27
Introduction
41
1
Demography of Global Cities
41
4
Household Structure Changes
45
2
Youth versus Age
47
6
Regional Changes -- Urbanising World
53
3
Changes to Regional Spatial Distributions
56
1
Migration and City Change
57
9
Summary
66
2
Global Cities
68
28
Introduction
68
1
Modern to Postmodern Cities
69
1
Socio-economic Analysis -- Postmodernity
70
5
Two Faces of the Postmodern City
75
1
Postmodernism -- Epistemological Challenges
76
2
Postmodern Critique
78
2
From World Systems to Globalisation
80
10
Global Dynamics
90
3
Global and the Local
93
1
Summary
93
3
Everyday Life in the City
96
24
Introduction
96
3
Meaning of House and Home
99
4
Non-material Dimensions of House and Home
103
3
Home as a Site of Work
106
1
Neighbourhood and Community
107
5
Analysis of Community
112
3
Neighbourhood
115
3
Summary
118
2
Consumption and Urban Culture
120
29
Defining Consumption
120
2
Collective Consumption
122
1
Commodification
123
2
Commodification and the City
125
2
Consumer Culture
127
6
Shopping
133
1
The Development of Shopping
134
4
Theme Parks
138
1
Theme Parks -- History and Development
139
2
Urban Tourism and Place-making
141
5
Summary
146
3
Urban Social Inequality and Social Exclusion
149
29
Introduction
149
3
Definitions of Social Exclusion
152
2
Causes of Social Exclusion
154
2
Patterns of Social Exclusion
156
19
Summary
175
3
Planning and the Urban Environment
178
25
Introduction
178
2
Planning and the City
180
12
Urban Governance
192
5
Urban Struggles
197
4
Summary
201
2
The Sustainable City
203
25
Introduction
203
3
Sustainable Development
206
8
Critique of Sustainability
214
3
The Aotearoa/New Zealand Resource Management Act, 1991
217
4
New Urbanism/Smart Growth
221
5
Summary
226
2
Reflections
228
8
Bibliography
236
19
Index
255