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Cities, Politics & Power (Paperback)
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Cities, Politics & Power (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
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Traditionally, the study of 'power in the city' was confined to the
institutions of urban government and the actors involved in
contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan
societies. Increasingly, however, attention has turned to the
function of the city not only as a centre of urban governance but
as a major economic, social, cultural and strategic force in its
own right. Cities, Politics and Power combines this traditional
concern with how the cities in which we live are organized and run
with a broader focus on cities and urban regions as multiple sites
and agents of power. This book is divided into five sections, with
a short introduction outlining the argument and organisation of the
text. Part two charts the development of the urban polity and
considers the ways in which coercion and force continue to be used
to segregate, oppress and annihilate urban populations. Part three
critically examines the key collective actors and processes that
compete for and organise political power within cities, and how
urban governance operates and interacts with lesser and greater
scales of government and networks of power. Part four then explores
the ways in which 'the political' is constituted by urban
inhabitants, and how social identity, information and communication
networks, and the natural and built environment all comprise
intersecting fields of urban power. The conclusion calls for a
broader theoretical and thematic approach to the study of urban
politics. This book makes extensive use of comparative and
historical case studies, providing broad coverage of politics and
urban movements in both the Global North and the Global South, with
a particular focus on the UK, USA, Canada, Latin America and China.
It is written in an accessible and lucid style and provides
suggestions for further reading at the end each chapter.
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