本书为西方城市理论文选,选录了过去 100年欧美*重要的城市理论流派和分析范式,按学科史进程,包括**个经典的城市社会学芝加哥学派、主要发源于欧洲的城市政治经济学学派、兴起于全球化时代的洛杉矾学派等。按研究领域,涉及城市生活方式、城市规划、城市社会问题、城市空间设计、城市可持续发展等。所选文献既有城市社会学的奠基之作、马克思主义传统的经典文本、各式典范的建筑与规划学说,还包括新近十年来正大领风骚的种种新潮学说。本文选旨在为中国的城市研究提供“他山之石”,进而对中国城市的规划和建设发挥积极功用。本书可作为城市社会学、城市管理、城市规划、城市设计、城市社区发展、建筑学等专业本科生与研究生的英语教材,并可作为一种城市经典读本,适于一切与城市发展、管理、规划及城市文化有关的专业人士。

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A Century of Urban Theory in the West:西方城市理论一百年(代序言)
1. Georg Simmel: The Metropolis and Mental Life
2. Robert Ezra Park: Human Ecology
3. Ernest W. Burgess: The Growth of the City
4. Louis Wirth: Urbanism as a Way of Life
5. Le Corbusier: A Contemporary City
6. Lewis Mumford: What is a City?
7. Kevin Lynch: The City Image and Its Elements
8. Jane Jacobs: The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety
9. Manuel Castells: Toward a Sociological Theory of City Planning
10. Henri Lefebvre: Space is a Social Product
11. David Harvey:Contested Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form
12. William Julius Wilson: From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos
13. William H. Whyte: The Design of Spaces
14. John Forester: Planning in the Face of Conflict
15. Ali Madanipour: Social Exclusion and Space
16. Robert D. Putnam: Bowling Alone: Americas Declining Social Capital
17. Andres Duany and Elizabeth PlaterZyberk: The Neighborhood, the District, and the Corridor
18. Saskia Sassen: Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities
19. Edward Soja: Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography
20. Stephen Wheeler: Planning Sustainable and Livable Cities
21. Matthew Carmona et al: The Social Dimension of Urban Design
22. Richard Florida: The Rise of the Creative Class
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