Gary Bridge & Sophie Watson 
The New Blackwell Companion to The City 

This book considers the state of the city and contemporary
urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international
perspectives.

* The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind

* Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on
well established debates in the field

* Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural,
environmental and political issues more broadly

* Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and
cities

O autorze

Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School
for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of
Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative
Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005), and co-editor of
Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson,
2005), and The Blackwell City Reader, second edition (with
Sophie Watson, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Mixed Communities:
Gentrification by Stealth? (with Tim Butler and Loretta Lees,
2012).

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open
University and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change. She is the author of City Publics: The
(dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of
Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997), and co-editor
of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995), Metropolis
Now (1994), and The Blackwell City Reader, second
edition (with Gary Bridge, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), among other
publications.