Urban Politics Now / Reflect 6

n.b • ebook • epub

• Samenvatting
  The form and future of cities is increasingly regarded as the product of inescapable processes: the strategic decisions of businesses, consumer preferences, deeply rooted cultural reflexes. Specifically, with the rise of a neoliberal and neo-conservative view of society, fundamental decisions about the everyday environment are increasingly determined by the laws of supply and demand or the clash of cultures. Is there still a place for democratic urban politics in such a climate? How can disenfranchised groups express their dissatisfaction? How can a city's development be steered by a collective political project again, instead of profit margins or economic formulae? The BAVO bureau for architectural theory invited a group of social geographers, sociologists, philosophers, planners, archi-tects and designers to reflect on the current repudiation of urban politics. Urban Politics Now offers an in-depth analysis of the plague of symptoms that are associated with this, such as gratuitous violence, zero tolerance, consumptive hedonism, socioeconomic polarization. It also proposes ways to re--establish the city as the driver of democratic politics with an emancipatory agenda, rather than one that ratifies the status quo. All the contributions are globally relevant, but there is a specific focus on recent urban developments in the Netherlands.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Epub
  Auteur : n.b
  Bestandstype : epub
  Distributievorm : Ebook (digitaal)
  Aantal pagina's : Afhankelijk van e-reader
  Beveiliging : Geen   Informatie 
  Uitgeverij : nai010 uitgevers/publishers
  ISBN : 9789056627928
  Datum publicatie : 11-2010
  
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