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1. City A-Z

   Urban Fragments

   Edited by Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift

   Featuring a fantastic line up of contributors, The City A-Z introduces students to a refreshingly new way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban life. Specially comissioned short entries capture moments of the city, constantly surprising the reader with entries ranging from poetry to...

   Published June 21st 2000 by Routledge
2. Unruly Cities?

   Order/Disorder

   Edited by Chris Brook, Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile

   Series: Understanding Cities

   The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed...

   Published May 5th 1999 by Routledge
3. City Worlds

   By John Allen, Doreen Massey, Steve Pile

   Series: Understanding Cities

   For the first time in history, half of the worlds population is living in mega-cities. Never before have we confronted such a geography of the worlds people.Analysing cities through spatial understanding, City Worlds explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity....

   Published October 21st 1998 by Routledge
4. Places Through the Body

   Edited by Heidi Nast, Steve Pile

   This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies. Extensive introductory and concluding sections guide students through the key debates and themes. Places Through the Body draws on a wide range of...

   Published July 8th 1998 by Routledge
5. The Body and the City

   Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity

   By Steve Pile

   Over the last century, psychoanalysis has transformed the ways in which we think about our relationships with others. Psychoanalytic concepts and methods, such as the unconscious and dream analysis, have greatly impacted on social, cultural and political theory. Reinterpreting the ways in which...

   Published July 17th 1996 by Routledge
6. Mapping the Subject

   Geographies of Cultural Transformation

   Edited by Steve Pile, Nigel Thrift

   Rejecting static and reductionist understandings of subjectivity, this book asks how people find their place in the world. Mapping the Subject is an inter-disciplinary exploration of subjectivity, which focuses on the importance of space in the constitution of acting, thinking, feeling individuals....

   Published August 2nd 1995 by Routledge
7. Place and the Politics of Identity

   Edited by Michael Keith, Steve Pile

   In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and `overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to...

   Published August 4th 1993 by Routledge