New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times - Couverture souple

Simone, AbdouMaliq; Pieterse, Prof Edgar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745691560 ISBN 13 : 9780745691565

Editeur : Polity, 2017

Synopsis

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. The full implications of this transformation cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in profound societal and cultural shifts. In this highly original account, renowned urbanists AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse offer a call for action based fundamentally on the detail of people’s lives. Urban regions are replete with residents who are compelled to come up with innovative ways to maintain or extend livelihoods, whose makeshift character is rarely institutionalized into a fixed set of practices, locales or organizational forms. This novel analytical approach reveals a more complex relationship between people, the state and other agents than has previously been understood. As the authors argue, we need adequate concepts and practices to grasp the composition and intricacy of these shifting efforts to make visible new political possibilities for action and social justice in cities across Asia and Africa.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

AbdouMaliq Simone is Professor of Sociology and Urbanism at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Edgar Pieterse is South African Research Chair in Urban Policy at the University of Cape Town.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745691560
• ISBN 13: 9780745691565
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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