Cities in the urban age : a dissent / Robert A. Beauregard.

Main entry:

Beauregard, Robert A., author.

Title & Author:

Cities in the urban age : a dissent / Robert A. Beauregard.

Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xv, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The city -- Wealth, poverty -- Destructive, sustainable -- Oligarchic, democratic -- Intolerant, tolerant -- Encountering contradictions.

Summary:

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic--it is too celebratory by half. For Beauregard, the city is a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions; indeed, he doesn't necessarily hold that they need to be resolved, since they are generative of city life. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn't be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings. -- From back cover.

ISBN:

9780226535241 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
022653524X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780226535388 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022653538X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
(electronic book)
9780226535418

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Cities and towns Social aspects.
Urban economics.
Cities and towns Political aspects.
Cities and towns Social aspects United States.
Cities and towns Political aspects United States.
Cities
Villes.
Villes Aspect social.
Économie urbaine.
Villes Aspect politique.
Villes Aspect social États-Unis.
Villes Aspect politique États-Unis.
cities.
71.14 urban society.
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional.
HISTORY / United States.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Soziale Situation
Stadt
Urbanität
United States.
USA

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300731
Call No.: BIB 246951
Status: Available

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