Peter Marcuse / Ronald van Kempen (eds.)

Of States and Cities

The Partitioning of Urban Space
Herausgeber: Marcuse, Peter; Kempen, Ronald Van

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Produktbeschreibung

development and political response revealed is enormous, and provides ample practical examples of what might be done to bring about improvements for the increasing number of people who live in cities.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780198297192
• ISBN-10: 019829719X
• Artikelnr.: 21170246

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Peter Marcuse, Ronald van Kempen: States and Cities and the
Partitioning of Urban Space: Introduction
* 2: Peter Marcuse: The Divided City in History
* 3: Ronald Van Kempen: The Academic Formulations: Explanations of the
Partitioned City
* 4: Peter Lee and Alan Murie: The Poor City: National and Local
Perspectives on Changes in Residential Patterns in the British City
* 5: Ronald van Kempen: Towards Partitioned Cities in the Netherlands?
Changing Patterns of Segregation in a Highly Developed Welfare State
* 6: Peter Marcuse: The Shifting Meaning of the Black Ghetto in the
United States
* 7: Sueli Ramos Schiffer: Economic Restructuring and Urban Segregation
in Sao Paulo
* 8: Janos Ladanyi: Residential Segregation among Social and Ethnic
Groups in Budapest during the Post-communist Transition
* 9: Grzegorz Weclawowicz: From Egalitarion Cities in Theory to
Non-Egalitarian Cities in Practice: The Changing Social and Spatial
Patterns in Polish Cities
* 10: Murat Guvenc and Oguz Isik: A Metropolis at the Crossroads: The
Changing Social Geography of Istanbul under the Impact of
Globalization
* 11: Loic Wacquant: The Rise of Advanced Marginality: Notes on its
Nature and Implications
* 12: Eva T. van Kempen: Poverty Pockets and Social Exclusion: On the
Role of Place in Shaping Social Inequality
* 13: Peter Marcuse, Ronald van Kempen: States and Cities and the
Partitioning of Urban Space: Conclusions
* Afterword on September 11
* Index