The Blackwell City Reader

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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 A Companion to the City (with Sophie Watson 2000). Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She is the author of among other publications City Publics: The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006) co-author of Markets as Sites for Social Interaction: Spaces of Diversity (with David Studdert 2006) and Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (with Peter Murphy 1997) and co-editor (with Katherine Gibson) of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995) and Metropolis Now (1994).