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    387,95 kr.

    Returning social justice to the center of urban policy debates

  • - Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa
    af Christine Hentschel
    252,95 kr.

    Focusing on the South African city of Durban, "Security in the Bubble" looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities have tried to reinvent space, using it as a "posi

  • - Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego
    af David J. Karjanen
    252,95 - 912,95 kr.

    San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story: blight and poverty replaced by high rises and jobs. But David J. Karjanen shows that the much-touted job opportunities for poor people have been concentrated in low-paying service work as the cost of living in San Diego has soare

  • - Local Frontiers At A Global Crossroads
    af Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez
    252,95 - 632,95 kr.

  • - Metamorphoses of Urban Life
    af Judit Bodnar
    317,95 kr.

    Considers what this central European metropolis tells us about the changing nature of urban life.With the collapse of state socialism, the people of Budapest are rearranging their points of reference as the cityscape’s familiar signposts disappear. In what sense is the transformation of Budapest different from the experience of "Western" cities? What does all this mean if viewed, as this book suggests, as a part of global restructuring? Through Budapest’s example, Judit Bodnár shows how the postsocialist experience of east-central European cities offers a fresh and instructive view of our general farewell to modernity.Fin de Millénaire Budapest combines historical narratives and ethnographic accounts with quantitative evidence to create a richly detailed picture of a city subjected to the forces of great local and global change. In the privatizing of public space, the decline of manufacturing, the rapid growth of services, and the opening of opportunities for entrepreneurs, Bodnár captures global urban patterns-with a distinct, central European accent. In particular, she shows tensions between the liberating and fragmenting effects of the increasingly private use of urban space and some ways in which the new urban patterns both resemble and transcend cultural patterns from Budapest’s socialist past.

  • - Primitive Globalization And The Politics Of Urban Community
    af William Sites
    252,95 kr.

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