Simon Parker

Cities, Politics & Power (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Cities, Politics and Power combines this traditional concern with how the cities in which we live are organized and run with a broader focus on cities and urban regions as multiple sites and agents of power. This book is divided into five parts, with a short introduction outlining the argument and organization of the text. Part two charts the development of the urban polity and considers the ways in which coercion and force continue to be used to segregate, oppress and annihilate urban populations. Part three critically examines the key collective actors and processes that compete for and organize political power within cities, and how urban governance operates and interacts with lesser and greater scales of government and networks of power. Part four then explores the ways in which 'the political' is constituted by urban inhabitants, and how social identity, information and communication networks, and the natural and built environment all comprise intersecting fields of urban power. The conclusion calls for a broader theoretical and thematic approach to the study of urban politics in order to reflect more fully the global transformation of political, economic and cultural space resulting from the urbanization of the world's population.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134214303
• Artikelnr.: 42982109

Autorenporträt

Simon Parker is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York where he teaches urban theory and comparative politics. He is the author of Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City (Routledge, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 1. Introduction Part 2: The Political Life of Cities 2. The Civic
City: The Emergence of Urban Societies 3. The Uncivil City: Violence,
Conflict and Resistance Part 3: Urban Governance 4. Political Organisations
and the Quest for Urban Power 5. The Government of Cities 6. The Confines
of Power: Cities, Regions and States in a Global Perspective Part 4:
Identity, Communication and Space 7. The Politics of Urban Identity 8.
Information, Communication and the Networks of Urban Power 9. The
Landscapes of Urban Power Part 5: Conclusion 10. Power and Politics in the
City