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The Sage handbook of the 21st century city / [edited by] Suzanne Hall, Ricky Burdett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications Inc., 2017Copyright date: ?2018Edition: 1st editionDescription: 1 online resource (706 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526402059 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No title; Print version :: No title; Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 307.76
LOC classification:
  • HT361 .S24 2018
Online resources: 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 Evictions Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment Authority: Governance and ...
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Includes index.

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 Evictions Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment Authority: Governance and ...

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