Wounded cities: destruction and reconstruction in a globalized world
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Berg 2003
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Wounded cities: deconstruction and reconstruction in a globalized world / Ida Susser and Jane Schneider -- The city as a body politic / David Harvey -- The depreciation of life during Mexico City's transition into 'the crisis' / Claudio Lomnitz -- International commodity markets, local land markets and class conflict in a provincial Mexican city / Carol J. Meyers -- Rethinking infastructure: Siberian cities and the great freeze of January 2001 / Caroline Humphrey -- How Kingston was wounded / Donald Robotham -- Wounded Medellín: narcotics traffic against a background of industrial decline / Mary Roldán -- Global justice in the postindustrial city: urban activism beyond the global-local split / Jeff Maskovsky -- After drugs and the 'war on drugs': reclaiming the power to make history in Harlem, New York / Leith Mullings -- Bangkok, the bubble city / Ara Wilson -- Contemporary Ho Chi Minh City in numerous contradictions: reform policy, foreign capital and the working class / Suhong Chae -- Belfast: urban space, 'policing' and sectarian polarization / Dominic Bryan -- 'Healing the wounds of the war': placing the war-displaced in postwar Beirut / Aseel Sawalha -- Wounded Palermo / Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider -- Epilogue: Baghdad, 2003 / Jane Schneider and Ida Susser
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Explores how urban populations are affected by wounds inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes. Adopting a grass roots up approach, this book places emphasis on peoples' experiences of uneven development and inequality. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 317 pages)
ISBN:9781845208745
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