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Cities for People, Not for Profit : Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City.
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and un...
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Cities for People, Not for Profit; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; 1. Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction: Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer; 2. What is critical urban theory?: Neil Brenner; 3. Whose right(s) to what city?: Peter Marcuse; 4. Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city, and the new metropolitan mainstream: Christian Schmid; 5. The "right to the city" in urban social movements: Margit Mayer; 6. Space and revolution in theory and practice: eight theses: Kanishka Goonewardena.
- 7. The praxis of planning and the contributions of critical development studies: Katharine N. Rankin8. Assemblages, actor-networks, and the challenges of critical urban theory: Neil Brenner, David J. Madden, and David Wachsmuth; 9. The new urban growth ideology of "creative cities": Stefan Krätke; 10. Critical theory and "gray space": mobilization of the colonized: Oren Yiftachel; 11. Missing Marcuse: on gentrification and displacement: Tom Slater; 12. An actually existing just city? The fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam: Justus Uitermark.
- 13. A critical approach to solving the housing problem: Peter Marcuse14. Socialist cities, for people or for power?: Bruno Flierl in conversation with Peter Marcuse; 15. The right to the city: from theory to grassroots alliance: Jon Liss; 16. What is to be done? And who the hell is going to do it?: David Harvey with David Wachsmuth; Afterword: Peter Marcuse; Index.