Name: Dialectical Urbanism (en Inglés)
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Author: Andy Merrifield
ISBN: 9781583670606

portada Dialectical Urbanism (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Monthly Review Press

Autor

Andy Merrifield

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.60

ISBN

1583670602

ISBN13

9781583670606

Categorías

Comunidades urbanas

Dialectical Urbanism (en Inglés)

Andy Merrifield (Autor) · Monthly Review Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Dialectical Urbanism (en Inglés)"

Life in the city can be both liberating and oppressive. The contemporary city is an arena in which new and unexpected personal identities and collective agencies are forged and at the same time the major focus of market forces intent on making all life a commodity. This book explores both sides of the urban experience, developing a perspective from which the contradictory nature of the politics of the city comes more clearly into view. Dialectical Urbanism discusses a range of urban issues, conflicts and struggles through detailed case studies set in Liverpool, Baltimore, New York, and Los Angeles. Issues which affect the quality of everyday life in the citygentrification and development, affordable rents, the accountability of local government, the domination of the urban landscape by new corporate giants, policingare located in the context of larger political and economic forces. At the same time, the narrative constantly returns to those moments in which city dwellers discover and develop their capacity to challenge larger forces and decide their own conditions of life, becoming active citizens rather than the passive consumers. Merrifield draws on a wide range of sourcesfrom interviews with activists and tenants fighting eviction to government and corporate reportsand uncovers surprising connections, for example, between the rise of junk bonds in the 1980s and urban improvement schemes in a working-class neighborhood in Baltimore. This lively and many-sided narrative is constantly informed by broader analyses and reflections on the city and engages with these analyses in turn. It fuses scholarship and political engagement into a powerful defense of the possibilities of life in the metropolis today.