Shaking Up the City

Shaking Up the City Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question

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Publisher's Synopsis

Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of theory and empirical evidence, Tom Slater "shakes up" mainstream urban studies in a concise and pointed fashion by turning on its head much of the prevailing wisdom in the field. To this end, he explores the themes of data-driven innovation, urban resilience, gentrification, displacement and rent control, neighborhood effects, territorial stigmatization, and ethnoracial segregation.
 
With important contributions to ongoing debates in sociology, geography, urban planning, and public policy, this book engages closely with struggles for land rights and housing justice to offer numerous insights for scholarship and political action to guard against the spread of an urbanism rooted in vested interest.
 

Book information

ISBN: 9780520303041
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 307.76
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxi, 233
Weight: 476g
Height: 159mm
Width: 235mm
Spine width: 22mm