Christian M. Anderson

Urbanism without Guarantees

The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood

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Produktbeschreibung

A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification.The book

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Produktdetails

• Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 146mm x 223mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781517907419
• ISBN-10: 1517907411
• Artikelnr.: 59885320

Autorenporträt

Christian M. Anderson is associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington at Bothell.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Situating a Struggle
I. Renovating and Making the Urban Question Critical: Toward a Parallax
Urbanism
1. Fateful Leaps: Flipping the Script on Rent Gaps and Revanchism 
2. Unsettling the Urban Question
3. The Contingencies of Civic Action, Revisited
4. The Hitch, or, Performative Infrastructure
II. Place-Embedded Stories and Other Incitements to Parallax Urbanism
5. A Brief (Infrastructural?) History of West Forty-Sixth Street
6. Specters, Traditions, and the Dominance of Common Sense
7. Battles, Contradictions, and Good Sense
Conclusion: This Hegemony Is a Drag
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index