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The right to the city: Popular contention in contemporary Buenos Aires
Abstract from the publisher: Based on extensive, original fieldwork, as well as new survey data, The Right to the City contributes to the study of democratization by focusing on the dilemmas and opportunities of popular contention in the city of…
Time and the suburbs: The politics of built environments and the future of dissent
Abstract from the publisher:
By combining provocative prose with photo-essay, Time and the Suburbs explores the disappearance of cities in North America under the weight of suburban, exurban, and other forms of development that are changing the way…
Tuff city: Urban change and contested space in central Naples
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During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural…
Urban political geographies: A global perspective
Abstract from the publisher: How can we think about the urban within a political and geographical framework? This compelling new textbook scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to provide readers with a clear…
Urban revolt: Ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement
Extract from the Preface:
I became interested in nineteenth-century Chicago labor history in an indirect way. I had begun a study of political mobilization in Chicago community organizing and felt that I could not understand the political process…
Urban space in contemporary Egyptian literature : Portraits of Cairo
Abstract from the publisher : Part ode, part academic treatise, this book traces the transformation of Cairo’s historic downtown from its spectacular beginning as a French inspired Belle Époque marvel to a site of contest and, more…
Vers un mouvement social urbain poétique ? Une étude à Mexico
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Cette étude s'intéresse à l'appropriation alternative de l'espace public par des artistes porteurs d'un discours politique.
En étudiant le cas des Poètes en Construction…