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World of Gangs
Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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For the more than a billion people who now live in urban slums, gangs are ubiquitous features of daily life. Though still most closely associated with American cities, gangs are an entrenched, worldwide phenomenon that play a significant role in a wide range of activities, from drug dealing to …
Seeking Spatial Justice
Häftad, 2010
273 kr
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In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the …
Work of Cities
Häftad, 1998
287 kr
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Examines the new role of cities in a global economy.Are cities obsolete relics of an earlier era? In this pathbreaking book, Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile contend that contrary to this conventional wisdom, cities are growing in importance. Far from irrelevant, local governments are vital …
Reconstructing Chinatown
Ethnic Enclave, Global Change
Av Jan Lin
Häftad, 1998
295 kr
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An exploration of this fascinating community as a window on globalization.In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and dilapidated, filled with sweatshops, vice, and organized crime. In this well-written and engaging volume, Jan Lin presents a …
Selling the Lower East
Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City
Häftad, 2000
283 kr
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Tracks the shifting views of the Lower East Side from ghetto to desirable urban niche.The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories-of poor immigrants who flocked there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of beatniks, hippies, and artists who peopled it mid-century; and of …
Power and City Governance
Comparative Perspectives on Urban Development
Häftad, 1999
301 kr
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Case studies of four major cities reveal the politics of governing today.Case studies of four major cities reveal the politics of governing today.This book develops a new way of comparing and understanding urban politics across national borders. The authors’ approach, called “modes of governance,” …
Regions That Work
How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
Häftad, 2000
301 kr
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"A remarkable and timely book. . . . Must reading." William Julius WilsonOffering a new vision of community-based regionalism, this book arrives just as "smart growth" measures and other attempts to link cities and suburbs are beginning to make their mark on the political and analytical scene. The …
Second Tier Cities
Rapid Growth Beyond the Metropolis
Av Ann Markusen
Häftad, 1999
329 kr
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Analyzes and compares the rapid growth of medium-sized cities.Over the past thirty years, transnational investment, trade, and government policies have encouraged the decentralization of national economies, disrupting traditional patterns of urban and regional growth. Many smaller cities-such as …
Fin De Millenaire Budapest
Metamorphoses of Urban Life
Av Judit Bodnar
Inbunden, 2000
399 kr
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Considers what this central European metropolis tells us about the changing nature of urban life.With the collapse of state socialism, the people of Budapest are rearranging their points of reference as the cityscape’s familiar signposts disappear. In what sense is the transformation of Budapest …
Landscapes of Urban Memory
The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City
Häftad, 2001
297 kr
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A rich analysis of religion, civic life, and global transformation in India.Established in the middle of the sixteenth century, Bangalore has today become a center for high-technology research and production, the new “Silicon Valley” of India, with a metropolitan population approaching six million. …
City Requiem, Calcutta
Gender and the Politics of Poverty
Av Ananya Roy
Häftad, 2002
315 kr
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Uses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want.Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and …
a Political Space
Reading the Global Through Clayoquot Sound
Av Warren Magnusson, Warren Magnusson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
295 kr
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An innovative look at the convergence of global trends and local struggles in this out-of-the-way place.On the remote outer coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Clayoquot Sound might seem to be situated at the periphery of contemporary power and authority. And yet, as the disputed land of …
El Paso
Local Frontiers at a Global Crossroads
Häftad, 2004
301 kr
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A grounded and instructive analysis of the ways globalization affects a border cityEvery marker of social difference can be easily interpreted in the fashionable language of “borderlands”-and if so, as Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez reveals, the practical reality of the border region is often grossly …
Remaking New York
Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community
Häftad, 2003
301 kr
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Uses New York City to discuss the ways that policy has mismanaged the effects of globalizationInequality increases, instability grows, communities fragment: this is the fate of a city in the wake of globalization-but is globalization really the cause? Proposing a new perspective on politics, …
Shanghai Rising
State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity
Häftad, 2009
297 kr
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Analyzing a Chinese city's dazzling rise to global megacity statusUntil around 1990, Shanghai was China's premier but sluggish industrial center. Now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the joint impact of global forces and state power has turned Shanghai into a dynamic megacity. …
Mobile Urbanism
Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age
Häftad, 2011
301 kr
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Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are not isolated objects of study; rather, they are dynamic, global–local assemblages of policies, practices, and ideas. The …
Justice and the American Metropolis
Av Clarissa Rile Hayward, Todd Swanstrom
Häftad, 2011
304 kr
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Today’s American cities and suburbs are the sites of “thick injustice”-unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opaque and seemingly intractable. Thick injustice is hard to see, to assign responsibility for, and to change. Identifying these often invisible and …
Does Local Government Matter?
How Urban Policies Shape Civic Engagement
Häftad, 2012
275 kr
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Until recently, policy evaluation has mostly meant assessing whether government programs raise reading levels, decrease teen pregnancy rates, improve air quality levels, lower drunk-driving rates, or achieve any of the other goals that government programs are ostensibly created to do. Whether or …
Struggling Giants
City-Region Governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo
Av Paul Kantor, Christian Lefèvre m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
332 kr
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Throughout the past thirty years a small number of city-regions have achieved unprecedented global status in the world economy while undergoing radical changes. Struggling Giants examines the transformation of four of the most significant metropolises: London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo. This …
Turkish Berlin
Integration Policy and Urban Space
Häftad, 2013
285 kr
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The integration of immigrants into a larger society begins at the local level. Turkish Berlin reveals how integration has been experienced by second-generation Turkish immigrant women in two neighborhoods in Berlin, Germany. While the neighborhoods are similar demographically, the lived experience …
Durable Slum
Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai
Häftad, 2014
310 kr
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In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie …
Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation
Beijing, Chicago, and Paris
Av Yue Zhang
Häftad, 2013
310 kr
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While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred …
Security in the Bubble
Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa
Häftad, 2015
301 kr
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Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities …
Servant Class City
Urban Revitalization Versus the Working Poor in San Diego
Häftad, 2016
301 kr
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San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story, with blight and poverty replaced by high-rises and jobs. But David J. Karjanen shows that the much-touted job opportunities for poor people have been concentrated in low-paying …
Showroom City
Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World
Inbunden, 2022
1350 kr
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A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing worldHigh Point, North Carolina, is known as the “Furniture Capital of the World.” Once a manufacturing stronghold, most of its furniture factories have closed over the past forty years, with production shipped off …
Showroom City
Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World
Häftad, 2022
329 kr
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A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing worldHigh Point, North Carolina, is known as the “Furniture Capital of the World.” Once a manufacturing stronghold, most of its furniture factories have closed over the past forty years, with production shipped off …
Betting on Macau
Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution
Av Tim Simpson
Inbunden, 2023
1408 kr
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A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planetBetting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in Asia, returned to the People’s Republic of …
Betting on Macau
Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution
Av Tim Simpson
Häftad, 2023
340 kr
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A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planetBetting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in Asia, returned to the People’s Republic of …
Globalized Authoritarianism
Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco
Inbunden, 2018
1283 kr
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A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politicsOver the past thirty years, Morocco’s cities have transformed dramatically. To take just one example, Casablanca’s medina is now obscured behind skyscrapers that are funded by global capital and encouraged by Morocco’s monarchy, which hopes to …
Globalized Authoritarianism
Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco
Häftad, 2018
305 kr
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A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politicsOver the past thirty years, Morocco’s cities have transformed dramatically. To take just one example, Casablanca’s medina is now obscured behind skyscrapers that are funded by global capital and encouraged by Morocco’s monarchy, which hopes to …
