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Divided Cities - The Oxford Amnesty Lectures (Paperback)
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Divided Cities - The Oxford Amnesty Lectures (Paperback)
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Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and
citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by
divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims
of deprivation and injustice? What is it like to live on the wrong
side of the divide in Paris, London, New York, Sao Paolo, and other
cities all over the world?
In this book, based on the internationally renowned Oxford Amnesty
Lectures, eight leading urban thinkers argue about why divisions
arise in cities and about what could and should be done to bring
those divisions to an end. The book features essays by Patrick
Declerck, Stuart Hall, David Harvey, Richard Rogers, Patricia
Williams, and James Wolfensohn, with commentaries from Peter Hall,
Michael Likosky, and others. The many contemporary issues that the
book addresses include the impact of globalization and migration on
the urban environment, the consequences of the 'war on terror' for
those living in cities, the new development paradigm being adopted
by international institutions in the developing world, the need for
a genuine urban renaissance in Britain and elsewhere, and the
suffering of the homeless.
These controversial and sometimes conflicting essays, linked by
Richard Scholar's incisive introduction, aim to encourage and
inform debate about the challenges to human rights in our
increasingly urban world.
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