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Los tiempos de la globalización son momentos de intemperie. Lo comunitario y sus formas, que fueron expulsadas para lograr la modernización, vuelven ahora como un verdadero síntoma. El síntoma comunitario, solución de compromiso entre lo peculiar que no cede y lo universal imprescindible, pide ser comprendido en su doble escenario real: la polis y el mercado. Sus lógicas atraviesan y enajenan los vínculos sociales y piden una atención ética. Este...
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Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways.
This edited collection is built around the experiences of Yeoville Studio, a research initiative based at the School of Architecture and Planning...
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Daniel A. Bell is the Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Arts and Humanities at Shanghai Jiaotong University and professor of political theory and director of the Center for International and Comparative Political Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His books include China's New Confucianism and Beyond Liberal Democracy (both Princeton). Avner de-Shalit holds the Max Kampelman Chair for Democracy and Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
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Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field
This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors of late, particularly in mainstream political science, where it has been accused of parochialism and insularity. Critical Urban Studies offers a sharp repudiation of this critique, reasserting the need for critical urban scholarship and...
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Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.
Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City-queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists-as they transform streets, piers, and vacant lots into everyday sites for autonomy, imagination,...
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Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.
Across the world's most industrialized economies, the financial crisis of 2007 caused a contraction of state budgets and stimulated attempts to reform debt-burdened governments. In the United States, a system of fiscal federalism meant this turn towards austerity took a uniquely fragmented and geographically diverse form. Drawing on case studies of recent urban restructuring,...
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The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter cities will bring in new revenue while saving money. They will be more of everything that a twenty-first century urban planner, citizen, and elected official wants: more efficient, more sustainable,...
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Un impresionante análisis de los problemas y desafíos de la ciudad contemporánea: el muchismo, la especulación, la gentrificación, la privatización, la contaminación, el turismo, etc.
¿Por qué se va la gente de las ciudades? Porque la echan. Una multitud de factores, desde el precio de la vivienda hasta los efectos del turismo, empujan a las personas a abandonar los espacios urbanos concentrados. Poco a poco, las ciudades se vacían y envejecen....
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La urbanización es un proceso imparable. Para 2050 la ONU calcula que 70% de las 9,700 millones de personas que habitarán la Tierra lo hará en zonas urbanas. Los retos que impone este fenómeno son de enormes proporciones, en especial para conformar una ciudad incluyente, diversa y sustentable. Este volumen se enfoca en el problema de la vivienda urbana con el fin de aportar opciones para el desarrollo de proyectos sustentables. A partir del análisis...
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San Carlos de Bariloche es una ciudad que supone simultaneidades de prácticas, encuentros, intereses contrapuestos y desigualdades.
Para estudiarla se ponen en juego especificidades disciplinarias y se entraman diálogos, produciendo conocimientos interdisciplinarios que alientan a seguir indagando en gestión ambiental, urbana y de desarrollo local.
San Carlos de Bariloche es un espacio urbano al sur del continente que supone simultaneidades...
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Este libro se pregunta por el sentido que los habitantes le dan al espacio al producirlo comunitariamente. Se trata de una apuesta por entender la ciudad como construcción colectiva, que puede ser explicada sin renunciar a los procedimientos y conceptos de las ciencias sociales, en un diálogo parejo entre la investigadora y la comunidad. Su objeto es la ciudad, pero no como el espacio abstracto de la geometría, el físico de la geografía o el...
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Now, for the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities. But urbanization is accelerating in some places and slowing down in others. The sprawling megacities of Asia and Africa, as well as many other smaller and medium-sized cities throughout the "Global South," are expected to continue growing. At the same time, older industrial cities in wealthier countries are experiencing protracted socioeconomic decline. Nonetheless,...
15) The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities
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The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Goetz traces the tensions involved in housing integration and policy to show why he doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their...
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A half century after the Fair Housing Act, despite ongoing transformations of the geography of privilege and poverty, residential segregation by race and income continues to shape urban and suburban neighborhoods in the United States. Why do people live where they do? What explains segregation's persistence? And why is addressing segregation so complicated? The Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences...
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By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.
Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth...
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The Changing American Neighborhood argues that the physical and social spaces created by neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being of twenty-first-century Americans and their communities. Taking a long historical view, this book explores the many dimensions of today's neighborhoods, the forms they take, the forces and factors influencing them, and the people and organizations trying to change them.
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Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance....
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Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbors, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change the meaning of wet urban spaces. In The Politics of Urban Water, Kimberley...
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