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Cities for People, Not for Profit : Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203802182
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.1/21601
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Contents:
Front Cover -- Cities for People, Not for Profit -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction: Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer -- 2. What is critical urban theory?: Neil Brenner -- 3. Whose right(s) to what city?: Peter Marcuse -- 4. Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city, and the new metropolitan mainstream: Christian Schmid -- 5. The "right to the city" in urban social movements: Margit Mayer -- 6. Space and revolution in theory and practice: eight theses: Kanishka Goonewardena -- 7. The praxis of planning and the contributions of critical development studies: Katharine N. Rankin -- 8. Assemblages, actor-networks, and the challenges of critical urban theory: Neil Brenner, David J. Madden, and David Wachsmuth -- 9. The new urban growth ideology of "creative cities": Stefan Krätke -- 10. Critical theory and "gray space": mobilization of the colonized: Oren Yiftachel -- 11. Missing Marcuse: on gentrification and displacement: Tom Slater -- 12. An actually existing just city? The fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam: Justus Uitermark -- 13. A critical approach to solving the housing problem: Peter Marcuse -- 14. Socialist cities, for people or for power?: Bruno Flierl in conversation with Peter Marcuse -- 15. The right to the city: from theory to grassroots alliance: Jon Liss -- 16. What is to be done? And who the hell is going to do it?: David Harvey with David Wachsmuth -- Afterword: Peter Marcuse -- Index.
Summary: The financial crisis has given new impetus to the struggles of oppositional urban social movements that have long emphasized the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. Through contributions by urban theorists, sociologists, geographers, political scientists, planners and activists, the volume explores the possibilities for, and constraints upon, critical urban theory and practice today. Ideas are linked by a common theme: the difficulties that are created for people by cities organized for profit, and the existing trends, struggles and movements that might change their course to construct alternative forms of urbanism. The slogan, "cities for people, not for profit," thus sets into stark relief what the authors view as a central political objective for ongoing efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time.
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Front Cover -- Cities for People, Not for Profit -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction: Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer -- 2. What is critical urban theory?: Neil Brenner -- 3. Whose right(s) to what city?: Peter Marcuse -- 4. Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city, and the new metropolitan mainstream: Christian Schmid -- 5. The "right to the city" in urban social movements: Margit Mayer -- 6. Space and revolution in theory and practice: eight theses: Kanishka Goonewardena -- 7. The praxis of planning and the contributions of critical development studies: Katharine N. Rankin -- 8. Assemblages, actor-networks, and the challenges of critical urban theory: Neil Brenner, David J. Madden, and David Wachsmuth -- 9. The new urban growth ideology of "creative cities": Stefan Krätke -- 10. Critical theory and "gray space": mobilization of the colonized: Oren Yiftachel -- 11. Missing Marcuse: on gentrification and displacement: Tom Slater -- 12. An actually existing just city? The fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam: Justus Uitermark -- 13. A critical approach to solving the housing problem: Peter Marcuse -- 14. Socialist cities, for people or for power?: Bruno Flierl in conversation with Peter Marcuse -- 15. The right to the city: from theory to grassroots alliance: Jon Liss -- 16. What is to be done? And who the hell is going to do it?: David Harvey with David Wachsmuth -- Afterword: Peter Marcuse -- Index.

The financial crisis has given new impetus to the struggles of oppositional urban social movements that have long emphasized the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. Through contributions by urban theorists, sociologists, geographers, political scientists, planners and activists, the volume explores the possibilities for, and constraints upon, critical urban theory and practice today. Ideas are linked by a common theme: the difficulties that are created for people by cities organized for profit, and the existing trends, struggles and movements that might change their course to construct alternative forms of urbanism. The slogan, "cities for people, not for profit," thus sets into stark relief what the authors view as a central political objective for ongoing efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time.

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