By Andy Merrifield

ISBN-10: 0745334830

ISBN-13: 9780745334837

ISBN-10: 0745334849

ISBN-13: 9780745334844

The New city Question is an exuberant and illuminating event via our present worldwide city situation, tracing the connections among radical city conception and political activism.

From Haussmann’s makes an attempt to exploit city making plans to rid 19th-century Paris of employees revolution to the modern city, together with city disaster-zones reminiscent of downtown Detroit, Merrifield unearths how the city event has been profoundly formed via category antagonism and been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions.

Going past the paintings of past city theorists equivalent to Manuel Castells, Merrifield identifies the hot city query that has emerged and calls for pressing cognizance, because the urban turns into a domain of energetic plunder by way of capital and the atmosphere for brand spanking new sorts of city fight, from Occupy to the Indignados.

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