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Urban Geographies - Politics, Pandemics, Protests, People's Rights (Paperback)
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Urban Geographies - Politics, Pandemics, Protests, People's Rights (Paperback)
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Of pressing concern in these uncertain times are the structures and
livability of urban societies, and how we join with planners and
policymakers to create and transform our social and physical
spaces. In 2019, the first modern world pandemic began in a local
Chinese wet market and rapidly diffused through urban global
hierarchies. Globalization and the excesses of capitalism seem to
have created a world of greater urban risk. Densely packed urban
populations live alongside bats, rodents, pets, birds and other
living things. The 2019/20 Covid-19 pandemic mandated a global
shut-down with consequential changes in urban health, economies and
lifestyles.Urban Geographies: Politics, Pandemics & People's
Rights looks closely at the spatial importance of local and global
connectivity. In addition to pandemic threats there are pressing
issues such urban gentrification, revitalization, political,
economic and social restructuring, and social and political
activism. Within cities today, wealth and poverty reside
cheek-by-jowl. Racial, sexual, and ethnic minorities along with
women, children and the elderly fight for representation and
political power. Many neighborhoods are no longer safe and the
household is an increasingly marginalized economic unit. Within
cities, nature and healthy living are at the forefront of concerns,
but there is also a rise of communities of care and mutual aid.
This books covers these matters as they relate to space, urban
living and global connectivity.
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