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Suzanne Hall, Ricky Burdett - SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City

Av Suzanne Hall, Ricky Burdett

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The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance.  An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways, speaking to new ideas of what constitutes the urban, highlighting empirical explorations and expanding on contributions to policy and design. The handbook is organised around nine key themes, through which familiar analytic categories of race, gender and class, as well as binaries such as the urban/rural, are readdressed. These thematic sections together capture the volatile processes and intricacies of urbanisation that reveal the turbulent nature of our early twenty-first century: Hierarchy: Elites and EvictionsProductivity: Over-investment and AbandonmentAuthority: Governance and MobilisationsVolatility: Disruption and AdaptationConflict: Vulnerability and InsurgencyProvisionality: Infrastructure and IncrementalismMobility: Re-bordering and De-borderingCivility: Contestation and EncounterDesign: Speculation and ImaginationThis is a provocative, inter-disciplinary handbook for all academics and researchers interested in contemporary urban studies.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-11-08
  • Mått: 174 x 246 x 46 mm
  • Vikt: 1 580 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 730
  • Upplaga: 1
  • Förlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781473907560
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Look no further.  Whether interested in the latest conceptual turn in defining the urban, or in the importance of transcending disciplinary boundaries in the study of cities, this handbook has it all. It is a superb collection that contains a remarkable set of essays from the world’s leading urbanists whose combined wisdom is essential to anyone seeking to understand the 21st century city.  As noted in the editors’ introduction, this is not your standard urban sociology monograph. It is a call to consider new methods of action and imagination, built on a scholarly embrace of ethnographic and analytical thinking and brought to life through the careful reexamination of what the city is and might become in times of rapid and disruptive change. Adroitly organized around a range of thematic topics and scales of inquiry that shed light on timely issues such as immigration, risk, eviction, and conflict as well as more enduring concerns like governance, globalization, and investment, the main challenge for the reader will be to absorb it all. Yet, the editors’ abiding concern with the socio-spatial and experiential contours of the urban, and their clear appreciation for the impact of design on the production and consumption of the city, provide an opportunity to tie together the various sections and chapters in unique and provocative ways.  Although there are many worthy urban collections available on the market today, hands-down this is the one I’d want my students to read and my colleagues to discuss.

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