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Cities and inequalities in a global and neoliberal world

By: Series: Routledge studies in urbanism and the cityPublication details: London Routledge 2015Description: xiii,235pISBN:
  • 9780415705981
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  • 307.76 MIR
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CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables vii List of Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 David Wilson, Faranak Miraftab and Ken E. Salo The Editors Part I. Urban Inequalities Across the World 13 1. Social Sustainability and Urban Inequality: Detroit and the Ravages of Neoliberalism 15 David Fasenfest 2. New Inequalities in America’s Rust Belt David Wilson and Faranak Miraftab 28 3. From "Free-Market" Slums to Public Housing and Back Again: The Politics of Relocating Atlanta’s Poor Katherine Hankins, Mechelle Puckett, Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel 49 4. Socio-Spatial Inequality and Violence in Cities of the Global South: Evidence from Latin America Diane E. Davis 75 5. "City-Doubles:" Re-Urbanism in Africa Martin J. Murray 92 6. New Forms of Housing and Urban Inequalities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe Virág Molnár 110 7. Small Cities, Big Issues: Indian Cities in the Debates on Urban Poverty and Inequality Neema Kudva 135 8. The Paradox of Weiquan Movements: Social Inequality and Individual Negotiation in Land Development in Urban China 153 Mi Shih Part II. Resistances and Insurgencies: Thoughts and Possibilities 171 9. Urban Insurgencies and the Re-Politicization of the Unequal City Erik Swyngedouw 173 10. Equality at the Beginning: Rancière and Democracy Today 188 Mark Purcell 11. Arts of Resistance: Seeing and Shaping the Struggle 207 Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross 12. Local Practices and Trans-local Solidarities: Reflections on Anti-Eviction Practices on the Cape Flats, South Africa, and in Southside Chicago 217 Illinois Ken Salo Index 227
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CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
David Wilson, Faranak Miraftab and Ken E. Salo
The Editors
Part I. Urban Inequalities Across the World 13
1. Social Sustainability and Urban Inequality: Detroit and the Ravages of Neoliberalism 15
David Fasenfest
2. New Inequalities in America’s Rust Belt David Wilson and Faranak Miraftab 28
3. From "Free-Market" Slums to Public Housing and Back Again: The Politics of Relocating Atlanta’s Poor Katherine Hankins, Mechelle Puckett, Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel 49
4. Socio-Spatial Inequality and Violence in Cities of the Global South: Evidence from Latin America
Diane E. Davis 75
5. "City-Doubles:" Re-Urbanism in Africa Martin J. Murray 92
6. New Forms of Housing and Urban Inequalities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe Virág Molnár 110
7. Small Cities, Big Issues: Indian Cities in the Debates on Urban Poverty and Inequality Neema Kudva 135
8. The Paradox of Weiquan Movements: Social Inequality and Individual Negotiation in Land Development in Urban China 153
Mi Shih
Part II. Resistances and Insurgencies: Thoughts and Possibilities 171
9. Urban Insurgencies and the Re-Politicization of the Unequal City Erik Swyngedouw 173
10. Equality at the Beginning: Rancière and Democracy Today 188
Mark Purcell
11. Arts of Resistance: Seeing and Shaping the Struggle 207
Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross
12. Local Practices and Trans-local Solidarities: Reflections on Anti-Eviction Practices on the Cape Flats, South Africa, and in Southside Chicago 217
Illinois Ken Salo
Index 227

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