Gary Bridge & Sophie Watson 
The New Blackwell Companion to The City 

This book considers the state of the city and contemporary
urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international
perspectives.

* The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind

* Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on
well established debates in the field

* Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural,
environmental and political issues more broadly

* Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and
cities

About the author

Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School
for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He is the author of
Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative
Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005), and co-editor of
Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson,
2005), and The Blackwell City Reader, second edition (with
Sophie Watson, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Mixed Communities:
Gentrification by Stealth? (with Tim Butler and Loretta Lees,
2012).

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open
University and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change. She is the author of City Publics: The
(dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006), co-author of
Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997), and co-editor
of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995), Metropolis
Now (1994), and The Blackwell City Reader, second
edition (with Gary Bridge, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), among other
publications.