UID:
almahu_9949593345602882
Format:
1 online resource (706 pages) :
,
illustrations.
Edition:
1st edition.
ISBN:
9781526402059 (ebook) :
Content:
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 ...
Note:
Includes index.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781473907560 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781473987104 (web pdf : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781473987869 (epub2)
Language:
English
