How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and oth...(展开全部)

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social spac...(展开全部)

[英国]尼尔•史密斯（Neil Smith，1954—2012），英国地理学家，1982年在美国约翰•霍普金斯大学获得博士学位，曾任纽约城市大学研究生院人类学和地理学特聘教授，美国新泽西州罗格斯大学担任地理学教授、当代文化批评中心代理主任。

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds...(展开全部)

This authoritative introduction to the study of human beings and their cultural institutions in cities offers twenty-six readings more than one-half new or revised for the Fourth Edition that form a rich blend of classic studies of enduring interest and important new research. Impressive in scope, the latest edition offers an entirely new section on globalization and transnatio...(展开全部)

查尔斯·兰德利（Charles Landry）出生于1948年，先后在英国、德国、意大利接受教育。他在1978年创立的“传通媒体”（Comedia），被誉为欧洲最具权威的文化创意规划咨询机构。多年来，兰德利与他的团队跑遍全世界，推展了无数的项目；他在全球45个国家发表过演讲。近几年，则专注于辅导亚洲国家推动城市的创意发展。 其著作有：《创意城市》（The Creative City：A Toolkit for Urban Innovators，2000）、《城市建设的艺术》（The Art of City Making，2006）、《掌握先机：复杂年代的都市生活》（Riding the Rapids：Urban Life in an Age of Complexity，2004），以及与菲尔·伍德合著的《跨文化城市：多元文化的优势》（The Inte...(展开全部)

查尔斯·兰德利（Charles Landry）出生于1948年，先后在英国、德国、意大利接受教育。他在1978年创立的“传通媒体”（Comedia），被誉为欧洲最具权威的文化创意规划咨询机构。多年来，兰德利与他的团队跑遍全世界，推展了无数的项目；他在全球45个国家发表过演讲。近几年，则专注于辅导亚洲国家推动城市的创意发展。 其著作有：《创意城市》（The Creative City：A Toolkit for Urban Innovators，2000）、《城市建设的艺术》（The Art of City Making，2006）、《掌握先机：复杂年代的都市生活》（Riding the Rapids：Urban Life in an Age of Complexity，2004），以及与菲尔·伍德合著的《跨文化城市：多元文化的优势》（The Inte...(展开全部)

Within a relatively short time, urban anthropology has emerged as one of the most vital fields of anthropology. During its formative period, however, it has lacked intellectual coherence. Exploring the Cityis a bold first attempt to provide just such a coherent and unified theoretical understanding of urbanism. Hannerz draws upon the urban perspectives of other disciplines as ...(展开全部)