{"product_id":"cities-for-people-not-for-profit-critical-urban-theory-and-the-right-to-the-city-paperback","title":"Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeil Brenner\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePeter Marcuse\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMargit Mayer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary urban restructuring, including the issues of neoliberalization, gentrification, colonization, \"creative\" cities, architecture and political power, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures and the ongoing struggles of \"right to the city\" movements. At the same time, the book explores the diverse interpretive frameworks - critical and otherwise - that are currently being used in academic discourse, in political struggles, and in everyday life to decipher contemporary urban transformations and contestations. The slogan, \"cities for people, not for profit,\" sets into stark relief what the contributors view as a central political question involved in efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon European and North American scholarship in sociology, politics, geography, urban planning and urban design, the book provides useful insights and perspectives for citizens, activists and intellectuals interested in exploring alternatives to contemporary forms of capitalist urbanization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeil Brenner\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Urban Theory at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He formerly served as Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eNew State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2004); co-editor of \u003cem\u003eSpaces of Neoliberalism\u003c\/em\u003e (with Nik Theodore; Blackwell, 2002); and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Global Cities Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (with Roger Keil; Routledge, 2006). His research interests include critical urban theory, sociospatial theory, state theory and comparative geopolitical economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Marcuse\u003c\/strong\u003e, a planner and lawyer, is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University. He is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eGlobalizing Cities\u003c\/em\u003e (Blackwell, 2000) as well as of \u003cem\u003eStates and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2002) and \u003cem\u003eSearching for the Just City\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2009). His fields of research include city planning, housing, homelessness, the use of public space, the right to the city, social justice in the city, globalization, urban history, the relation between cultural activities and urban development, and, most recently, solutions to the mortgage foreclosure crisis. He is beginning work on a book on critical planning, and a companion volume including analytic cases culled from past writings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargit Mayer\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches comparative and North American politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on comparative politics, urban and social politics, and social movements. She has published on various aspects of contemporary urban politics, urban theory, and (welfare) state restructuring, much of it in comparative perspective. She is co-editor of \u003cem\u003ePolitics in European Cities\u003c\/em\u003e (with Hubert Heinelt; Birkhäuser, 1993), \u003cem\u003eUrban Movements in a Globalising World\u003c\/em\u003e (with Pierre Hamel and Henri Lustiger-Thaler; Routledge, 2000) and \u003cem\u003eNeoliberal Urbanism and its Contestations - Crossing Theoretical Boundaries\u003c\/em\u003e (with Jenny Künkel; Palgrave, 2011). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755823530272,"sku":"9780415601788","price":129.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a1e9e208a13d8e2cc98663121715ee3d.webp?v=1780069006","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/cities-for-people-not-for-profit-critical-urban-theory-and-the-right-to-the-city-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}