Remaking New York : Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community.

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William Sites proposes a new perspective on politics, globalization, and the city through the concept of primitive globalization, identifying a pattern of reactive politics that facilitates a damaging type of international integration. Sites examines the.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sites, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Series:Globalization and community.
Subjects:
City planning > New York (State) > New York.
Community development > New York (State) > New York.
Community organization > New York (State) > New York.
Political participation > New York (State) > New York.
Municipal government > New York (State) > New York.
Globalization.
Organisation communautaire > New York (État) > New York.
Participation politique > New York (État) > New York.
Administration municipale > New York (État) > New York.
Mondialisation.
Développement communautaire > New York (État) > New York.
globalism.
City planning
Community development
Community organization
Economic history
Economic policy
Globalization
Municipal government
Political participation
Politics and government
Social conditions
New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government.
New York (N.Y.) > Economic policy.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) > Economic conditions.
New York (N.Y.) > Administration.
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Lower East Side
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Globalism and the City; 1. Primitive Globalization? State, Economy, and Urban Development; 2. Building an Urban Neoliberalism: The Long Rebirth of New York; 3. Public Action: Gentrification and the Lower East Side; 4. Urban Movements, Local Control: Fighting over the Neighborhood; 5. Beyond Primitive Globalization: Policy, Activism, and the Metropolis; Postscript: Rebuilding after 9/11; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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