Getting Political in the Neoliberal City

Planning and Design for Social and Environmental Justice
Herausgeber: Yigit Turan, Burcu; Cate Christ, Melissa; Cerulli, Cristina

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the politicization of space and the socio-political engagement of cities that are increasingly being shaped by capitalism and neoliberal governance. It will be invaluable reading to planners, designers, artists and other actors to understand equality, democracy, and social justice today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780367859299
• ISBN-10: 0367859297
• Artikelnr.: 72700926

Autorenporträt

Burcu Yigit Turan is a senior lecturer at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Uppsala. Her work lies at the intersection of planning, urban sociology, critical and cultural geography, cultural studies, and design, and focuses on socio-spatial justice-oriented histories, theories, methods and practices. Melissa Cate Christ is a landscape architect, academic, and artist whose practice aims to reveal and engage people in the everyday beauty of places through movement. Currently Sydney-based, Melissa has lived and worked in Sweden, Hong Kong, Canada, China, and the USA. Cristina Cerulli is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Reading and a founding director of research-led social enterprise practice Studio Polpo. She works across practice and academia around supporting collective endeavors in the city and countering inequality through practices of care, and actively proposing and implementing alternatives.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Getting Political in the Neoliberal City: An Introduction 2. Plants as
Allies in the Recombinant Trajectories of Ultimo, Sydney, Australia 3. From
Waste Injustice and Environmental Racism Toward Restorative Justice:
Dismantling Socio-Spatial Manifestations of White Supremacy in the Design
and Planning of Waste Landscapes 4. Did the Danish Welfare Architects Leave
Any Heirs? How Current Practices Operate Within, Against, and Beside
Neoliberalism 5. Just Standards: Delineating the Potential of Green Space
Provision Standards to Increase Environmental Justice 6. The Stickiness of
Conducting Fieldwork in Spatial Design Research: a Case Study in Hong Kong
7. Urban Design In, Against, and Beyond Neoliberal Public Space: Everyday
Appropriations and the Redesign of Malmö's Western Harbor Promenade 8.
Temporary Spaces in Peripheral Urban Areas: Building Situated Knowledge,
Not Best Practices 9. Countermapping States of Exception in Cyprus:
Critical Urban Practice in Architectural Education 10. Vila Autódromo:
Governmental Tactics to Remove a Defiant Favela