Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis: Volume 1: Theories and Concepts

ISBN-13: 9780367205621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 194 str.

Bryan Turner; Hannah Wolf; Gregor Fitzi

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This volume addresses issues of urban political subjectivities by considering the city’s role in historical processes of emancipation, the fight for citizenship rights, and today’s challenges and opportunities with regard to promoting social justice, integration, and diversity.

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Introduction: Cities between Success and Failure  Part 1: Philosophical and Historical Trajectories  1. The Good City and Its True Costs: Planetary Urbanisation Through an Aristotelian Lens  2. Sacred Cities: Ancient and Early Modern Religious Diversity  3. On Immigration and the Meanings of Urban Social Justice in Queens, NY  4. Successful Societies and Policy Discourse: A Meta-Political Engagement with Joan C. Williams’s White Working Class  Part 2: Urban Political Collectivities  5. Global Urbanism and the Crisis of Emancipation  6. Changing Political Collectivities in Times of Crisis: Tenant Protest in Berlin and New York  7. Urban Citizenship in Times of Gentrification  Part 3: Towards Urban Complexity and Social Quality  8. Urban Complexity and Urban Change : Co-Irritation, Co-Evolution and Co-Design with the Potsdam Lodestar Approach  9. ‘Social Quality’ and the City : A Qualitative Exploratory Comparison in the Cities of Lausanne and Zurich