Main entry:

Merrifield, Andy, author.

Title & Author:

The new urban question / Andy Merrifield.

Publication:

London : PlutoPress, 2014.
©2014

Description:

xviii, 138 pages ; 20 cm.

Series:

Politics / urbanisation

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface : neo-Haussmannization and its discontents -- Whither urban studies? -- Old urban questions revisited (and reconstituted) -- Cities under tension -- Strategic embellishment and urban civil war -- Sentimental urban education -- Urban Jacobinism -- Old discourse on new inequality -- Every revolution has its agora -- Taking back urban politics -- Whose city? : the parasites', of course ... -- Afterword : the parasitic mode of urbanization.

Summary:

"The New Urban Question is an exuberant adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism. From Haussmann's attempts to use urban planning to rid nineteenth-century Paris of workers' revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the urban experience has been profoundly shaped by class antagonism and has been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Klappentext

ISBN:

9780745334844 (hardback)
0745334849 (hardback)
9780745334837 (pbk.)
0745334830 (pbk.)
(PDF eBook)
9781783711352
(Kindle eBook)
9781783711376
(EPUB eBook)
9781783711369

Subject:

Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns.
Cities
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes.
urban sociology.
cities.
Stadt
Stadtplanung
Urban politik.
Städer.
Stadssociologi.
Society.
stedelijke samenleving
urban society
urbanisatie
urbanization
stedelijke planning
urban planning
Urban Society
Stedelijke samenleving

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302222
Call No.: BIB 248423
Status: Available