Urbanism in the Digital Age
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Urbanism in the Digital Age

  1. 243 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Urbanism in the Digital Age

About this book

Offers a groundbreaking perspective on the future of urban studies

Urbanism in the Digital Age provides an essential, paradigm-shifting framework for understanding contemporary urban life. Author Mark Gottdiener redefines the study of urbanism by shifting the focus from traditional city-centered models to the Multi-Centered Metropolitan Region (MCMR), a revolutionary approach that integrates regional dynamics, digital media, and socioeconomic structures. This book challenges long-standing theories, critiques dominant neoliberal policies, and provides innovative solutions to critical contemporary issues.

Through an interdisciplinary synthesis of Lefebvrian and Castellsian perspectives, Gottdiener dissects the limitations of classical Marxist and city-centric urban theories while presenting new methodologies for analyzing spatial and social problems. Exploring the interplay between digital media, economic forces, and regional development, 14 in-depth chapters incorporate historical analysis, census data, and case studies to illustrate real-world applications.

Presenting a bold new vision for addressing spatial inequalities, rethinking governance, and fostering sustainable urban transformation, Urbanism in the Digital Age:

  • Critiques traditional city-centered urban studies and offers a unique and new perspective based on a regional, digital-age approach.
  • Analyzes the impacts of digital media and neoliberal governance on spatial and social inequalities
  • Examines pressing urban crises, such as affordable housing, transportation, racial segregation, climate change, homelessness, and the crisis effects of draconian Neoliberal policies.
  • Proposes innovative policy solutions for urban planning, sustainability, and regional development
  • Investigates the role of architecture, urban planning and thematic environments in shaping urban experiences and fighting climate change.

Urbanism in the Digital Age is an indispensable resource for students and scholars in urban studies, sociology, geography, political science, architecture, and urban planning. It is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses on urbanism, social problems, and public policy, and a must-read for policymakers and professionals engaged in urban development and regional planning.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781394295623
eBook ISBN
9781394295647
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Urban Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. CHAPTER 1: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
  7. CHAPTER 2: The City Is Dead. Long Live the City
  8. CHAPTER 3: Henri Lefebvre’s Urbanism: Right and Wrong
  9. CHAPTER 4: How the Modernist City of Corporations Transformed into the MCMR
  10. CHAPTER 5: How the MCMR Functions as the New Form of Urban Space
  11. CHAPTER 6: The Space of Flows: Part One: Transportation
  12. CHAPTER 7: The Space of Flows: The Digital Age
  13. CHAPTER 8: Affordable Housing and the MCMR
  14. CHAPTER 9: The Unhoused Crisis: Shame of a Nation
  15. CHAPTER 10: Perpetual Problems: Racism, Segregation, Their Effects, and the MCMR Solution
  16. CHAPTER 11: Urban Planning in the MCMR
  17. CHAPTER 12: Architecture and the MCMR – The Crisis of Environmental Sustainability and Landmark Building
  18. CHAPTER 13: Public Policy and the MCMR: Political Fragmentation, Social Polarization, and Some Possible Solutions to Regional Governance
  19. CHAPTER 14: Neoliberalism and Its Failure to Contain Social Problems: The Current Crisis, the Need for Social Action, and the Fallacy of the “Right to the City"
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. EULA