Shaking up the city : ignorance, inequality, and the urban question /

"Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of abstract theory and concrete empirical evidence, Tom Slater strives to 'shake up' mainstream urban studies in a conc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Slater, Tom, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
cities.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Cities and towns
Sociology, Urban
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Challenging the heteronomy of urban research
  • The resilience of neoliberal urbanism
  • Gentrification beyond false choice urbanism
  • Displacement, rent control, and housing justice
  • Neighbourhood effects as tautological urbanism
  • The production and activation of territorial stigma
  • Ghetto blasting
  • Some possibilities for critical urban studies.

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