The City Cultures Reader

One of the many important occasions marked by the new millennium is the fact that for the first time a majority of the human inhabitants of the Earth will dwell in cities. This is a collection of 60 texts on the cultural aspects, frameworks and perceptions of cities, reflecting the concerns for diversity rather than conventional notions of universality. The City Cultures Reader is organised into 12 sections drawing from material on cultural studies, architectural criticism and theory, cultural and human geography, urban design and critical theory. Topics covered include city form, city cultures in relation to politics and economics, every day life, memory and identity, cultural representation, ecology, social justice, resistance, utopian and dystopian visions, and possible futures.