Urban Claims and the Right to the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Claims and the Right to the City write by Julian Walker. This book was released on 2020-10-09. Urban Claims and the Right to the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that they engage, on a daily basis, with issues related to housing and spatial rights, and identity struggles around race, gender, disability, sexuality, citizenship and class. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution write by David Harvey. This book was released on 2012-04-04. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Manifesto on the urban commons from the acclaimed theorist.
The Right to the City
The Right to the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Right to the City write by Don Mitchell. This book was released on 2012-02-21. The Right to the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications, yet demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used, and under what conditions. Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States. Don Mitchell explores how political dissent gains meaning and momentum--and is regulated and policed--in the real, physical spaces of the city. A series of linked cases provides in-depth analyses of early twentieth-century labor demonstrations, the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley, contemporary anti-abortion protests, and efforts to remove homeless people from urban streets.
Cities for People, Not for Profit
Cities for People, Not for Profit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities for People, Not for Profit write by Neil Brenner. This book was released on 2012-06-25. Cities for People, Not for Profit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism. The contributors provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary urban restructuring, including the issues of neoliberalization, gentrification, colonization, "creative" cities, architecture and political power, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures and the ongoing struggles of "right to the city" movements. At the same time, the book explores the diverse interpretive frameworks – critical and otherwise – that are currently being used in academic discourse, in political struggles, and in everyday life to decipher contemporary urban transformations and contestations. The slogan, "cities for people, not for profit," sets into stark relief what the contributors view as a central political question involved in efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time. Drawing upon European and North American scholarship in sociology, politics, geography, urban planning and urban design, the book provides useful insights and perspectives for citizens, activists and intellectuals interested in exploring alternatives to contemporary forms of capitalist urbanization.
Making an Urban Public
Making an Urban Public - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making an Urban Public write by Christina Jiménez. This book was released on 2019-05-15. Making an Urban Public available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written as a social history of urbanization and popular politics, this book reinserts “the public” and “the city” into current debates about citizenship, urban development, state regulation, and modernity in the turn of the century Mexico. Rooted in thousands of pages of written correspondence between city residents and local authorities, mostly with the city council of Morelia, the rhetoric and arguments of resident and city council dialogues often highlighted a person’s or group’s contributions to the public good, effectively positioning petitioners as deserving and contributing members of the urban public. Making an Urban Public tells the story of how Morelia’s residents—particular those from popular groups and poor circumstances—claimed (and often gained) basic rights to the city, including the right to both participate in and benefit from the city’s public spaces; its consumer and popular cultures; its modernized infrastructure and services; its rhetorical promises around good government and effective policing; its dense networks of community; and its countless opportunities for negotiating to forward one’s agenda, and its urban promise for a better life.
