Cities for People, not for Profit
Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
The financial crisis has given new impetus to the struggles of oppositional urban social movements that have long emphasized the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. Through contributions by urban theorists, sociologists, geographers, political scientists, planners and activists, the volume explores the possibilities for, and constraints upon, critical urban theory and practice today. Ideas are linked by a common theme: the difficulties that are created for people by cities organized for profit, and the existing trends, struggles and movements that might change their course to construct alternat…
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Weitere Autoren: Marcuse, Peter (Hrsg.) / Mayer, Margit (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-415-60178-8
- EAN: 9780415601788
- Produktnummer: 7714689
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.8 cm 480 g
- Abbildungen: 17 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings
- Gewicht: 480
Über den Autor
Neil Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory atthe Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He formerly served as Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University. He is the author of New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood (Oxford University Press, 2004); co-editor of Spaces of Neoliberalism (with Nik Theodore; Blackwell, 2002); and co-editor of The Global Cities Reader (with Roger Keil; Routledge, 2006). His research interests include critical urban theory, sociospatial theory, state theory and comparative geopolitical economy.Peter Marcuse, a planner and lawyer, is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University. He is the co-editor of Globalizing Cities (Blackwell, 2000) as well as of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Searching for the Just City (Routledge, 2009). His fields of research include city planning, housing, homelessness, the use of public space, the right to the city, social justice in the city, globalization, urban history, the relation between cultural activities and urban development, and, most recently, solutions to the mortgage foreclosure crisis. He is beginning work on a book on critical planning, and a companion volume including analytic cases culled from past writings. Margit Mayer teaches comparative and North American politics at the Freie UniversitätBerlin. Her research focuses on comparative politics, urban and social politics, and social movements. She has published?on various?aspects of contemporary urban politics, urban theory, and (welfare) state restructuring, much of it in comparative perspective.?She is co-editor of Politics in European Cities (with Hubert Heinelt; Birkhäuser, 1993), Urban Movements in a Globalising World (with Pierre Hamel and Henri Lustiger-Thaler; Routledge, 2000) and Neoliberal Urbanism and itsContestations -Crossing Theoretical Boundaries(with Jenny Künkel; Palgrave, 2011).
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