Reflections on Materialities

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Bridge, Gary ^a   Watson, Sophie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

City materialities reflections on materialities and rethinking urban economies; Engels' reading from body shape and limb distortions interminably repeated task in factories; Friedrich Engels's capitalist urbanization in Manchester and London of mid nineteenth century; Historical materialism, guiding framework urban analysis and city life in capitalism; Landmark study of Chicago historian William Cronon; Material life of factory workers, east Manchester Engels, and the details; Neoliberalism, impact on cities role in neoliberal capitalism; Neoliberalism, market and the city humans and materials and dematerialized elements of global economy; Process materiality abstract and speculative trades in markets; Urban materialities of nature themes of materiality, neoliberalism and globalization, nature, environment and global warming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885563583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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