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

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Study and teaching; Sociology, Urban - Study and teaching; Urban policy - Study and teaching
• Altri autori: DaviesJonathan S ImbroscioDavid L
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field.
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical urban studies
• ISBN: 1-4384-3307-7; 1-4416-7887-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809988603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II