Urbanism in the Digital Age

Mark Gottdiener 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2025년 05월 23일 출간

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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 t

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Table of Contents Chapter 1 What’s Wrong with this Picture? The Multi- Centered Metro Region is the New Spatial Form of Urbanism Lefebvre Anticipates the MCMR Castells Anticipates the Digital Age What Follows Chapter 2 The City is Dead. Long Live the City The New Form of Urban Space Early Approaches to Regional Multi- Centered Growth: Geddes and Gottmann Metropolitics: One story of attempted regional policy for the MCMR The Digital Age Chasing after the MCMR by the U.S. Census over Time Regional Studies as a better means of capturing Social Space Moving On Chapter 3 Henri Lefebvre’s Urbanism: Right and Wrong Lefebvre’s Urbanism Theory The Production of Space: Understanding Why Space is a Force of Production The Stages of Society and Their Spatial formations The Second Circuit of Capitalism Capital Logic Theory and Reductionist Marxism The difference in returns on land between the city and the MCMR The Current Crisis Chapter 4 How the Modernist City of Corporations Transformed into the MCMR Breaking the Ideological Bias Favoring the City The Modern City of Corporate Capitalism The Capitalism of Corporations and the Metropolitan City Form The Burgess Model and Post- War Suburbanization The Chicago School of Sociology The Limited Relevance of Urban Density Mass Suburbanization and the Birth of a Mass Consumer Society The Role of Racism in Mass Suburbanization Mass Suburbanization Leads to the Mass Consumer Society. The Shift to the Sunbelt and the Dominance of the MCMR form The Scale Perspectiv

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저자(글) Mark Gottdiener