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Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets
by Manuel B. Aalbers
Part 37 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Utilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, “Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets” presents an in-depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes.
• Covers exclusion in mortgage markets in three different countries-the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands
• Presents an interdisciplinary perspective to the practice of redlining
• Connects the literature on social exclusion and financial exclusion
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Worlding Cities
Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global
by Various Authors
Part 42 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study.
• Describes the new theoretical framework of 'worlding'
• Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture
• Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study
• Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics
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Networked Disease
Emerging Infections in the Global City
by Various Authors
Part 44 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies.
• Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents
• Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state services
• Provides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities
• Examines the impact of globalization on future infectious disease threats on international and local politics and culture
• Focuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, political and social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to human development and global cities
• Employs an interdisciplinary approach to the SARS epidemic, clearly demonstrating the value of social scientific perspectives on the study of modern disease in a globalized world
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Cities of Europe
Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion
by Various Authors
Part 46 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Cities of Europe” exams the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities.
• Focuses on the interplay between segregation, social exclusion and governance issues in these cities.
• Takes a comparative approach by highlighting the specifics of European cities vis-à-vis other urban contexts and analysing the intra-European differences.
• Also features thematic maps, interviews with established scholars, and literature reviews.
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Understanding the City
Contemporary and Future Perspectives
by Various Authors
Part 47 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.
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Cinema and the City
Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
by Various Authors
Part 48 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.
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The Social Control of Cities?
A Comparative Perspective
by Sophie Body-Gendrot
Part 49 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
In this groundbreaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginalisation in contemporary advanced societies.
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The New Chinese City
Globalization and Market Reform
by Various Authors
Part 52 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Urbanisation and urban development issues are the focus of this comprehensive account which introduces readers to the far-reaching changes now taking place in Chinese cities.
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Eurostars and Eurocities
Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe
by Adrian Favell
Part 56 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe” examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.
• Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research, it uncovers the rarely studied human dimension of European integration
• Examines the mobility, lifestyle and career opportunities created by the borderless society of the European Union, as well as the barriers that still persist
• Analyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and forms of urban cosmopolitanism linked to processes of European integration
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Cities and Visitors
Regulating People, Markets, and City Space
by Various Authors
Part 57 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.
• Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism.
• Brings urban tourism into focus as an important political, economic and cultural phenomenon.
• Presents original essays written by established scholars, including studies of Venice, Mexico, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Australia's Gold Coast.
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Urban China in Transition
by Various Authors
Part 60 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources.
• Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China
• Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations
• Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology
• An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America.
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Working Bodies
Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities
by Linda McDowell
Part 61 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Through a series of case studies of low-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies.
• Defines 'body work' to include the work by service sector employees on their own bodies and on the bodies of others
• Sets UK case studies in the context of global patterns of economic change
• Explores the consequences of growing polarization in the service sector
• Draws on geography, sociology, anthropology, labour market studies, and feminist scholarship
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Getting Into Local Power
The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities
by Romain Garbaye
Part 62 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
This book presents a comparison of the patterns of ethnic minority politics in British and French city politics.
• A comparison of the participation of ethnic minorities in British and French cities
• Includes direct comparisons of particular cities Birmingham, Lille and Roubaix
• Shows how ethnic and cultural diversity translates into political conflict in different political systems
• Considers styles of political mobilisation of ethnic minorities in the context of urban political systems, as well as the strategies used by party leaders and to manage ethnic diversity in political competition
• Analyses how ethnic and cultural diversity in urban societies translates into conflictual politics
• Enhances our understanding of local politics and of the evolution of political representation in industrialised democracies
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Free Markets and Food Riots
The Politics of Global Adjustment
by John K. Walton
Part 64 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment".
• Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970s
• Argues that modern austerity protests, like the classical "bread riots" in eighteenth-century Europe are political acts aimed at injustice, but acts that are an integral part of the process of international economic and political restructuring
• Evaluates how modern food riots are most important for what they reveal about global economic transformation and its social, and political, consequences
• Provides a general framework (drawing on comparative and historical material) and then trace the cycle of uneven development, debt, neo-liberal reform, and protest in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe
• Focusses on the role of women in structural adjustment and protest politics and the features of seemingly anomalous cases which qualify the general argument
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Capital Culture
Gender at Work in the City
by Linda McDowell
Part 65 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate. It is also the subject of intense debate among observers of gender. “Capital Culture” explores these changes focusing particularly on the gender relations between the men and women who work in the financial services sector. The multiple ways in which masculinities and femininities are constructed is revealed through the analysis of interviews with dealers, traders, analysts and corporate financiers.
Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, the various ways in which gender segregation is established and maintained is explored. In fascinating detail, the everyday experiences of men and women working in a range of jobs and in different spaces, from the dealing rooms to the boardrooms, are examined. This volume is unique in focusing on men as well as women, showing that for men too there are multiple ways of doing gender at work.
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Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia
Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States
by Various Authors
Part 70 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States” examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations.
• Represents one of the few studies of neoliberal changes in East Asia, one of the most important topics in social science research over the past two decades
• Considers the Asian perspective by focusing on readings from Asian experts
• Pays special attention to the 'spatial' dimension of the East Asian neoliberalization
• Examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations
• Explores the evolving relationship between the two political economies
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Subprime Cities
The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets
by Various Authors
Part 72 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets” presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent 'subprime' mortgage crisis.
• Provides an even-handed and detailed analysis of mortgage markets and the recent housing crisis
• Features contributions from various social scientists with expertise in critical social theories who have assembled and analyzed detailed empirical information
• Offers a unique and powerful rebuttal to many of the misleading popular explanations of the crisis and its aftermath
• Reveals how racial minorities and the neighbourhoods inhabited by them are more likely to be targeted by subprime and predatory lenders
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Iron Curtains
Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City
by Sonia A. Hirt
Part 75 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, “Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City” explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe.
• Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern Europe
• Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast Europe
• Makes a broader statement on issues of urbanism in Europe and other parts of the world while highlighting the complex connections between cultures and cities
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The Creative Capital of Cities
Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation
by Stefan Krätke
Part 79 of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.
• Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class
• Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions, Hanover and Berlin
• Underscores that the culture industry takes a leading role in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of labor markets
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The Commodification Gap
Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg
by Matthias Bernt
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“The Commodification Gap” provides an insightful institutionalist perspective on the field of gentrification studies. The book explores the relationship between the operation of gentrification and the institutions underpinning-but also influencing and restricting-it in three neighborhoods in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg. Matthias Bernt demonstrates how different institutional arrangements have resulted in the facilitation, deceleration or alteration of gentrification across time and place.
The book is based on empirical studies conducted in Great Britain, Germany and Russia and contains one of the first-ever English language discussions of gentrification in Germany and Russia. It begins with an examination of the limits of the widely established "rent-gap" theory and proposes the novel concept of the "commodification gap." It then moves on to explore how different institutional contexts in the UK, Germany and Russia have framed the conditions for these gaps to enable gentrification. The Commodification Gap is an indispensable resource for researchers and academics studying human geography, housing studies, urban sociology and spatial planning.
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Contesting the Indian City
Global Visions and the Politics of the Local
by Various Authors
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Contesting the Indian City” features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India.
• Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing
• Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India
• The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication
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Paradoxes of Segregation
Housing Systems, Welfare Regimes and Ethnic Residential Change in Southern European Cities
by Sonia Arbaci
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Through an international comparative research, this unique book examines ethnic residential segregation patterns in relation to the wider society and mechanisms of social division of space in Western European regions.
• Focuses on eight Southern European cities, develops new metaphors and furthers the theorisation/conceptualisation of segregation in Europe
• Re-centres the segregation debate on the causes of marginalisation and inequality, and the role of the state in these processes
• A pioneering analysis of which and how systemic mechanisms, contextual conditions, processes and changes drive patterns of ethnic segregation and forms of socio-ethnic differentiation
• Develops an innovative inter-disciplinary approach which explores ethnic patterns in relation to European welfare regimes, housing systems, immigration waves, and labour systems
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Housing in the Margins
Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens
by Hanna Hilbrandt
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Housing in the Margins” offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin.
• An original empirical contribution to understanding housing precarity in the context of the German housing crisis
• A novel approach to theorizing the nexus of informality and the state in ways that bridge analytical divides between debates about Northern and Southern states
• An innovative account of urban development in Berlin that contributes to the limited discussions of urban informality in Euro-American cities
• A theoretical understanding of the ways in which negotiations and transgressions are embedded in the making of urban order
• A historically informed narrative of the development of allotment gardens in Berlin with a particular focus on housing practices at these sites
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Cities and Social Movements
Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015
by Walter J. Nicholls
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do—or don't—develop into large and sustained mobilizations.
• Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo
• Theorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart
• Provides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop
• Demonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countless resistances and shows how some environments provide the relational opportunities to nurture these small resistances into sustained mobilizations
• Written to appeal to a broad audience of students, scholars, policy makers, and activists, without sacrificing theoretical rigor
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The Politics of Incremental Progressivism
Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo
by Various Authors
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Large metropolises of the Global South are usually portrayed as ungovernable. “The Politics of Incremental Progressivism” analyzes urban policies in São Paulo—one of the biggest and most complex Southern cities—not only challenging those views, but showing the recent occurrence of progressive change. This book develops the first detailed and systematic account of the policies and politics that construct, maintain and operate a large Southern metropolis. The chapters cover the policies of bus and subway transportation, traffic control, waste collection, development licensing, public housing and large urban projects, additionally to budgeting, electoral results and government formation and dynamics.
This important book contributes to the understanding of how the city is governed, what kinds of policies its governments construct and deliver and, more importantly, under what conditions it produces redistributive change in the direction of policies that reduce its striking social and urban inequalities.
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Confronting Suburbanization
Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe
by Various Authors
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
This fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-spatial order to another. Case studies of seven Central and Eastern Europe city regions illuminate growth patterns and key conditions for the emergence of sprawl.
• Breaks new ground, offering a systematic approach to the analysis of the global phenomenon of suburbanization in a post-socialist context
• Tracks the boom of the post-socialist suburbs in seven CEE capital city regions — Budapest, Ljubljana, Moscow, Prague, Sofia, Tallinn, and Warsaw
• Situates the experience of the CEE countries in the broader context of global urban change
• Case studies examine the phenomenon of suburbanization along four main vectors of analysis related to development patterns, driving forces, consequences and impacts, and management of suburbanization
• Highlights the critical importance of public policies and planning on the spread of suburbanization
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Globalizing Cities
A New Spatial Order?
by Various Authors
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.
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Stolen Cars
A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict
by Various Authors
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil.
Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific theme, such as the distinctions between violent robbery and the more commercial non-violent theft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economies
Provides an original theoretical framework for a rarely studied urban and transnational supply chain
Draws from empirical data and a combination of different methodologies to demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproduction
Highlights how everyday life is entangled with structural urban transformations
Uses an ethnographic narrative to show how urban development produce various forms of illegality and violent crime
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Contemporary Urban Japan
A Sociology of Consumption
by John Clammer
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way.
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From World City to the World in One City
Liverpool through Malay Lives
by Tim Bunnell
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Tim Bunnell's book featured in the movie “Pulang”, the author has recently spoken in several interviews and programmes about how his fascination with the tales of Malay seamen in the UK led to writing this volume.
“From World City to the World in One City” examines changing geographies of Liverpool through and across the lives of Malay seamen who arrived in the city during its final years as a major imperial port.
• Draws upon life histories and memories of people who met at the Malay Club in Liverpool until its closure in 2007, to examine changing urban sites and landscapes as well as the city's historically shifting constitutive connections
• In considering the historical presence of Malay seamen in Liverpool, draws attention to a group which has previously received only passing mention in historical and geographical studies of both that city, and of multi-ethnic Britain more widely
• Demonstrates that Liverpool-based Malay men sustained social connections with Southeast Asia long before scholars began to use terms such as 'globalization' or 'transnationalism'
• Based on a diverse range of empirical data, including interviews with members of the Malay Club in Liverpool and interviews in Southeast Asia, as well as archival and secondary sources
• Accessibly-written for non-academic audiences interested in the history and urban social geography of Liverpool
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Classify, Exclude, Police
Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria
by Laurent Fourchard
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
The cities of South Africa and Nigeria are reputed to be dangerous, teeming with slums, and dominated by the informal economy but we know little about how people are divided up, categorised and policed. Colonial governments assigned rights and punishments, banned categories considered problematic (delinquents, migrants, single women, street vendors) and give non-state organisations the power to police low-income neighbourhoods. Within this enduring legacy, a tangle of petty arrangements has developed to circumvent exclusion to public places and government offices. In this unpredictable urban reality, which has eluded all planning, individuals and social groups have changed areas of public action through exclusion, violence and negotiation.
In combining historical and ethnographic methods, “Classify, Exclude, Police” explores the effects and limits of public action, and questions the possibility of comparison between cities often perceived as incommensurable. Focusing on state formation, urbanization, and daily lives, Laurent Fourchard addresses debates and controversies in comparative urban studies, history, political science, and urban anthropology. The book provides a systematic, comparative approach to the practices, processes, arrangements used to create boundaries, direct violence, and produce social, racial, gender, and`generational differences.
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Youth Urban Worlds
Aesthetic Political Action in Montreal
by Julie-Anne Boudreau
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth.
• Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process
• Includes ethnographies, delving into the perspectives and knowledges of racialized youth, urban farmers, and "voluntary risk takers," like dumpster divers, building climbers, and student protestors
• Theorizes that aesthetics are an increasingly crucial form of political action in the contemporary urban setting and explains the impact of aesthetics on the political
• Examines the centrality of fun, warmth, aesthetics, and embodiment to these youth's experience of being in the world
• Explains how youth are able to practically and concretely impact the political process through the performance of risky and disruptive behavior
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The People's Home?
Social Rented Housing in Europe and America
by Michael Harloe
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“The People's Home” is a magisterial examination of the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in six advanced capitalist countries-Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA.
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Cities After Socialism
Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies
by Various Authors
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Cities After Socialism” is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe and the Soviet Union. It will be of equal value to urban specialists and to those who have a more general interest in the most dramatic socio-political event of the contemporary era-the collapse of state socialism. Written by an international group of leading experts in the field, Cities after socialism asks and answers some crucial questions about the nature of the emergent post-socialist urban system and the conflicts and inequalities which are being generated by the processes of change now occurring.
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Post-Fordism
A Reader
by Various Authors
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications and includes key texts by post-Fordism's major theorists and commentators.
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Urban Land Rent
Singapore as a Property State
by Anne Haila
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
In “Urban Land Rent”, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory.
• Provides a comprehensive analysis of land, rent theory, and the modern city
• Examines the question of land from a variety of perspectives: as a resource, ideologies, interventions in the land market, actors in the land market, the global scope of land markets, and investments in land
• Details the Asian development state model, historical and contemporary land regimes, public housing models, and the development industry for Singapore and several other cities
• Incorporates discussion of the modern real estate market, with reference to real estate investment trusts, sovereign wealth funds investing in real estate, and the fusion between sophisticated financial instruments and real estate
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Concrete City
Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa
by Armelle Choplin
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa” delivers a theoretically informed, ethnographic exploration of the African urban world through the life of concrete. Emblematic of frenetic urban and capitalistic development, this material is pervasive, shaping contemporary urban landscapes and societies and their links to the global world. It stands and circulates at the heart of major financial investments, political forces and environmental debates. At the same time, it epitomises values of modernity and success, redefining social practices, forms of dwelling and living, and popular imaginaries.
The book invites the reader to follow bags of cement from production plant to construction site, along the 1000-kilometre urban corridor that links Abidjan to Accra, Lomé, Cotonou and Lagos, combining the perspectives of cement tycoons, entrepreneurs and political stakeholders, but also of ordinary men and women who plan, build and dream of the Concrete City. With this innovative exploration of urban life through concrete, Armelle Choplin delivers a fascinating journey into and reflection on the sustainability of our urban futures.
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Globalised Minds, Roots in the City
Urban Upper-Middle Classes in Europe
by Alberta Andreotti
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
“Globalised Minds, Roots in the City” utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.
• Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries
• Features an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societies
• Reveals how segments of Europe's urban population are adopting "exit" or "partial exit" strategies in respect to the nation state
• Utilises approaches from classic urban sociology, globalization and mobility studies, and spatial class analysis
• Includes in depth interviews, social networking techniques, and classic questions of political representation and values
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Housing Booms in Gateway Cities
by David Ley
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
In “Housing Booms in Gateway Cities”, renowned geographer Dr. David Ley delivers a detailed exploration of housing markets in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Vancouver, and London and explains why these gateway cities have seen dramatic increases in residential real estate prices since the 1980s. The author describes how the globalization of real estate has rapidly inflated demand and uncoupled local housing prices from local wages, causing acute problems of affordability, availability, and inequality. The book implicates government policy in massive real estate price inflation, describing a shift from welfare-based to asset-based societies. It also highlights the relatively unique experience in Singapore, where asset-based housing policy has encouraged the dispersion of ownership and accumulation through an increased supply of subsidized leasehold apartments and the regulation of disruptive investment flows.
“Housing Booms in Gateway Cities” is an ideal resource for academics, students and policymakers with an interest in urban geography, sociology, and planning, housing studies, and any of the cities discussed in the book. It is an innovative treatment of housing as a central category in wealth accumulation in urban economies and societies.
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Comparative Urbanism
Tactics for Global Urban Studies
by Jennifer Robinson
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
The rapid pace and changing nature of twenty-first century urbanization as well as the diversity of global urban experiences calls for new theories and new methodologies in urban studies. In “Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies”, Jennifer Robinson proposes grounds for reformatting comparative urban practice and offers a wide range of tactics for researching global urban experiences. The focus is on inventing new concepts as well as revising existing approaches. Inspired by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of urban studies she advocates for an experimental comparative urbanism, open to learning from different urban experiences and to expanding conversations amongst urban scholars across the globe.
The book features a wealth of examples of comparative urban research, concerned with many dimensions of urban life. A range of theoretical and philosophical approaches ground an understanding of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban. Advanced students, urbanists and scholars will be prompted to compose comparisons which trace the interconnected and relational character of the urban, and to think with the variety of urban experiences and urbanisation processes across the globe, to produce the new insights the twenty-first century urban world demands.
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Cities in Relations
Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou
by Ola Söderström
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change series
Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.
• Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Considers the ways in which a city's relationships with other places influences its urban development
• Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that move beyond discussions of economic and policy factors
• Offers a clear and concise narrative accompanied by more than 45 photos and maps
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