Cities : unauthored resistances and uncertain sovereignty in the urban world / Raymond Joshua Scannell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scannell, Raymond Joshua., author.

Series:

New worlds series.

New worlds series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Urbanization--Social aspects.

Urbanization.

Cities and towns--Social aspects.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

In Cities, Raymond Joshua Scannell examines how dramatic changes in the global economy and technology during the latter half of the twentieth century have radically restructured the city as a lived environment. Beginning with the impacts of globalisation on national and regional economies across the planet, Scannell investigates the rapidly changing and amorphous urban environments in which most people live. Cities traces how the actions of urban dwellers carving out lives for themselves are radically transforming paradigms of urban management and are overturning traditional assumptions about what constitutes urban rule and revolt. This exciting book insists on a new vocabulary for human settlements, one that looks centrally at the sort of behaviour that is often relegated figuratively and literally to the urban margins.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Social Chaotic; Chapter 2: The Urban Crisis and Mutation; Chapter 3: Invisible Resistance, Survival Tactics; Chapter 4: The Echo Chamber: Simulations, Simulacra, and Materiality of the Urban World; Chapter 5: Beginning Again; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published 2012 by Paradigm Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2016).

ISBN:

1-317-26247-6

1-315-63558-5

1-317-26246-8

9781315635583

OCLC:

932340181