Brings together some of the most influential and distinguished urban scholars of the late 20th century to focus on the nature of the city. Contributors address the importance of urban settlement and the fragility of the democratic city in the face of the fluidity and uncertainty brought on by recent global, economic, and cultural forces. Essays are at once clearly representative of urbanism in its various spatial and cultural manifestations, but not so particular as to avoid the globalization of urbanism. Some topics include urban regions and the cyberspace matrix, transnationalism and the city, and transients and public life. This is the last volume in the series. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
