Urban Diversity: Space, Culture, and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801898013 ISBN 13 : 9780801898013

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

Synopsis

As the world’s urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative framework, Urban Diversity examines the multiple meanings of inclusion and exclusion in fast-changing urban contexts. The contributors identify specific areas of contestation, including public spaces and facilities, governmental structures, civil society institutions, cultural organizations, and cyberspace. The contributors also explore the socioeconomic and cultural mechanisms that can encourage inclusive pluralism in the world’s cities, seeking approaches that view diversity as an asset rather than a threat. Exploring old and new public spaces, practices of marginalized urban dwellers, and actions of the state, the contributors to Urban Diversity assess the formation and reformation of processes of inclusion, whether through deliberate actions intended to rejuvenate democratic political institutions or the spontaneous reactions of city residents.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Blair A. Ruble is the author of several books about the governance of cities worldwide, including Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv and Second Metropolis: Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka, both also published by Johns Hopkins and the Woodrow Wilson Center. Ruble is director of the Kennan Institute and of the Comparative Urban Studies Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801898013
• ISBN 13: 9780801898013
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Kihato Caroline Wanjiku, Massoumi Mejgan, Ruble Blair A., Subirós Pep, Garland Allison M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible