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Urban Politics : Critical Approaches.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, Limited, 2013Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781446297476
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.8/5
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Contents:
COVER -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Thinking Critically about Urban Politics -- Section 1: City as Setting -- Introduction to City as Setting -- 2. The Neighbourhood as a Place for (Urban) Polictics -- 3. Splintered Governance: Urban Politcis in the Twenty-First Century -- 4. Ruthless: The Foreclosure of American Urban Politics -- Section 2: City as Medium -- Introduction to City as Medium -- 5. Policing the City -- 6. Mayors and the Representation of Urban Politics -- 7. Making Urban Politics go away: The Role of Legally Mandated Planning Processes in Occluding City Power -- Section 3: City as Community -- Introduction to City as Community -- 8. Queering the City: Citizenship in Creative City Singapore -- 9. Making Space in the Multicultural City: Immigrant Settlement, Neighbourhoods and Urban Politics -- 10. The Embedded Politics of Entrepreneurs -- 11. Is Class Relevent to Urban Politics? -- 12. The Urban Imaginary of Nature: Cities in American Environmental Politics -- 13. Urban Politics as Parallax -- Index.
Summary: A critical exploration of global, contemporary urban politics in a geographical context.
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COVER -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Thinking Critically about Urban Politics -- Section 1: City as Setting -- Introduction to City as Setting -- 2. The Neighbourhood as a Place for (Urban) Polictics -- 3. Splintered Governance: Urban Politcis in the Twenty-First Century -- 4. Ruthless: The Foreclosure of American Urban Politics -- Section 2: City as Medium -- Introduction to City as Medium -- 5. Policing the City -- 6. Mayors and the Representation of Urban Politics -- 7. Making Urban Politics go away: The Role of Legally Mandated Planning Processes in Occluding City Power -- Section 3: City as Community -- Introduction to City as Community -- 8. Queering the City: Citizenship in Creative City Singapore -- 9. Making Space in the Multicultural City: Immigrant Settlement, Neighbourhoods and Urban Politics -- 10. The Embedded Politics of Entrepreneurs -- 11. Is Class Relevent to Urban Politics? -- 12. The Urban Imaginary of Nature: Cities in American Environmental Politics -- 13. Urban Politics as Parallax -- Index.

A critical exploration of global, contemporary urban politics in a geographical context.

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