City Futures

Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

AvDoctor Edgar Pieterse

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Beskrivning

Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented.This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to deal with these challenges. Pieterse argues that the current 'shelter for all' and 'urban good governance' policies treat only the symptoms, not the causes of the problem. Instead, he claims, there is an urgent need to reinvigorate civil society in these cities, to encourage radical democracy, economic resilience, social resistance and environmental sustainability folded into the everyday concerns of marginalised people. Providing a dynamic picture of a cosmopolitan urban citizenship, this book is an essential guide to one of the new century's greatest challenges.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-11-20
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:217
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781848133549
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Edgar Pieterse is Director of the African Centre for Cities and Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, both at the University of Cape Town. He is also a founding director of Isandla Institute; an urban policy think-tank where he continues advocacy oriented research work. His publications include: Voices of the Transition: The Politics, Poetics and Practices of Social Change in South Africa (2004), Democratising Local Government: The South African Experiment (2002) and Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from the South Africa Experience (2007).

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Pieterse is adept at steering us through disparate ways of being in the city - multiple times, different speeds and relays, inclusions and exclusions. Much is said about the need to make cities more effective and more just but there is seldom a language for doing this. Pieterse has made an enormous contribution to elaborating such a needed language, and for this has done a great service to advance a creative process of urban change.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments1 . Introduction: Deciphering City Futures2 . Urbanization Trends and Implications3 . Mainstream Agenda I: Shelter for All4 . Mainstream Agenda II - Good Governance5 . Reconceptualising 'the Political' in Cities6 . Informal Everyday Urbanism7 . Counterpoint: Alternative Urban Development8 . Making a Start towards Alternative City FuturesBibliographyNotesIndex