The New Urban Question

by Andy Merrifield

2021-01-01 10:56:42

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.From Haussmann''s attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-cen... Read more
The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.From Haussmann''s attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the urban experience has been profoundly shaped by class antagonism and been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions. Going beyond the work of earlier urban theorists such as Manuel Castells, Merrifield identifies the new urban question that has emerged and demands urgent attention, as the city becomes a site of active plunder by capital and the setting for new forms of urban struggle, from Occupy to the Indignados. Less

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File size7.81 X 5.06 X 0.34 in
Print pages160
PublisherPluto Books Ltd
Publication date March 20, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780745334837
ANDY MERRIFIELD is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books, as well as numerousarticles, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, NewLeft Review, The...

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