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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791764003321

Titolo

Critical urban studies [[electronic resource] ] : new directions / / edited by Jonathan S. Davies and David L. Imbroscio ; foreword by Clarence N. Stone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-3307-7

1-4416-7887-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DaviesJonathan S

ImbroscioDavid L

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Study and teaching

Sociology, Urban - Study and teaching

Urban policy - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

City / Elvin Wyly -- Critical perspectives on the city: constructivist, interpretive analysis of urban politics / Mara S. Sidney -- Seeing like a city: how to urbanize political science / Warren Magnusson -- Reflections on urbanity as an object of study and a critical epistemology / Julie-Anne Boudreau -- Back to the future: Marxism and urban politics / Jonathan S. Davies -- Keeping it critical: resisting the allure of the mainstream / David L. Imbroscio -- The trouble with diversity / Jeff Spinner-Halev -- Do multicultural cities help equality? / Yasminah Beebeejaun -- Why do we want mixed-income housing and neighborhoods? / James DeFilippis and Jim Fraser -- Dispersal as anti-poverty policy / Edward G. Goetz and Karen Chapple -- Beyond sprawl and anti-sprawl / Thad Williamson.