Cities for People, Not for Profit : Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

ISBN-13: 9780415601771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str.

Neil Brenner; Peter Marcuse; Margit Mayer

Opis

The financial crisis has given new impetus to the struggles of oppositional urban social movements that have long emphasized the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. Through contributions by urban theorists, sociologists, geographers, political scientists, planners and activists, the volume explores the possibilities for, and constraints upon, critical urban theory and practice today. Ideas are linked by a common theme: the difficulties that are created for people by cities organized for profit, and the existing trends, struggles and movements that might change their course to construct alternative forms of urbanism. The slogan, cities for people, not for profit, thus sets into stark relief what the authors view as a central political objective for ongoing efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time.

Spis treści

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. Critical Development Studies and the Praxis of Planning Katharine N. Rankin  8. Assemblages, Actor Networks and the Challenges of Critical Urban Theory Neil Brenner, David J. Madden and David Wachsmuth  9. 'Creative Cities’ and the Rise of The Dealer Class 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 Marcuse  14. Socialist Cities, for People or for Power? Bruno Flierl in Conversation with Peter Marcuse  15. Right to the City – From Theory to Alliance Jon Liss  16. What is to be Done, and Who the Hell is Going to do it? David Harvey and David Wachsmuth.  Afterword by Peter Marcuse: "Light Verse"