The New Urban Question - Couverture rigide

Merrifield, Andy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745334849 ISBN 13 : 9780745334844

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2014

Synopsis

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating 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 19th-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 been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions.

Going beyond the work of earlier urban theorists such as Manuel Castells, Merrifield identifies the new urban question that has emerged and demands urgent attention, as the city becomes a site of active plunder by capital and the setting for new forms of urban struggle, from Occupy to the Indignados.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Merrifield is the author of The Urbanization of Injustice, Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist City, and Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745334849
• ISBN 13: 9780745334844
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible