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Globalization, the shape of cities, the future of cities, the increasing gap between rich and poor inhabitants, and ethnic and racial segregation, are the key themes of this book. Taking examples from cities from Sao Paulo to Istanbul, from New York to Edinburgh, and adding their own ideas, the authors examine what might be done to improve things for all those who live in cities.
About the Author
Peter Marcuse is a Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University. Ronald van Kempen is an Associate Professor, Urban Research Centre, Utrecht University.
Globalization, the shape of cities, the future of cities, the increasing gap between rich and poor inhabitants, and ethnic and racial segregation, are the key themes of this book. Taking examples from cities from Sao Paulo to Istanbul, from New York to Edinburgh, and adding their own ideas, the authors examine what might be done to improve things for all those who live in cities.
About the Author
Peter Marcuse is a Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University. Ronald van Kempen is an Associate Professor, Urban Research Centre, Utrecht University.
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A spectre is haunting cities around the world: the spectre of globalization. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social rented dwellings, retreating welfare state, advanced marginality, outcast ghetto, social rented sector, partitioned city, poverty pockets, globalizing cities, social area analysis, urban marginality, social rented housing, new spatial order, factorial ecology, segregation indices, dual city, urban segregation, mixed neighbourhoods, socialist city, residential differentiation, urban governance, spatial segregation, private rented sector, fortified enclaves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Paulo Metropolitan Area, Second World War, The Hague, Paulo City, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, Russell Sage, United Kingdom, Chicago School, Governing European Cities, Great Britain, Los Angeles, Cambridge University Press, District Division, Harvard University Press, Polity Press, Rio de Janeiro, Supreme Court, Contemporary World, Princeton University Press, The Free Press, Urbanized Area, Amsterdam University Press New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
A spectre is haunting cities around the world: the spectre of globalization. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social rented dwellings, retreating welfare state, advanced marginality, outcast ghetto, social rented sector, partitioned city, poverty pockets, globalizing cities, social area analysis, urban marginality, social rented housing, new spatial order, factorial ecology, segregation indices, dual city, urban segregation, mixed neighbourhoods, socialist city, residential differentiation, urban governance, spatial segregation, private rented sector, fortified enclaves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Paulo Metropolitan Area, Second World War, The Hague, Paulo City, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, Russell Sage, United Kingdom, Chicago School, Governing European Cities, Great Britain, Los Angeles, Cambridge University Press, District Division, Harvard University Press, Polity Press, Rio de Janeiro, Supreme Court, Contemporary World, Princeton University Press, The Free Press, Urbanized Area, Amsterdam University Press New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- American Apartheid by Nancy A. Denton on 4 pages
- Social Relations and Spatial Structures by Derek Gregory on page 55, page 255, and page 256
- Governing European Cities: Social Fragmentation, Social Exclusion and Urban Governance (Urban and Regional Planning) by Hans Thor Andersen on page 51, page 52, and page 53
- Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order (Studies in Urban and Social Change) by Peter Marcuse on page 139, page 140, and page 268
- Turks in European Cities: Housing and Urban Segregation (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations) by Sule Ozuekren on page 54, page 55, and page 107
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- Desegregating The City: Ghettos, Enclaves, And Inequality (Suny Series in African American Studies) by David P. Varady in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cities of Europe: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion (Studies in Urban and Social Change) by Yuri Kazepov on page 39, and page 209
- Transformation Of Cities In Central And Eastern Europe: Towards Globalization by F. E. Ian Hamilton on page 247
- Civil Penalties, Social Consequences by Christopher Mele on page 138
- Terrorism, Risk and the City: The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape by Jon Coaffee in Back Matter
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