The City Reader

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The City Reader is written by Richard T. LeGates and published by Psychology Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0415190703 (ISBN 10) and 9780415190701 (ISBN 13).

This second edition of The City Reader brings together writing on the city. Each piece is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the authors' writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of: urban history and practice; competing ideological perspectives on the city; and the major current debates concerning race and gender, global restructuring, sustainable urban development, and the impact of technology and postmodernism.