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"Giving Ground" is prompted by two phenomena whose paradoxical
convergence is currently altering our experience and conception of
urban relations and city planning. On the one hand, forces of
globalisation push towards conditions of homogenisation and
deterritorialisation, while, on the other, a surging politics of
identity barricades various groups behind particular claims and
ignites violent persecutions. The covert relation between these
phenomena, wherby territory/ground is both disavowed or abstracted
"and" jealously reclaimed, is the focus of the essays in this
volume, at the heart of these investigations are the notions of
propinquity and neighbourliness whose redefinitions and
redeployments serve widely divergent ends: from the fortification
of the 'new urbanist' fantasy about the possibility of re-creating
small towns, to the validation of the exclusionary tactics of
'sanitization' that guide zoning decisions, to assisting in the
reimagination of an ethical and reasonable urbanism. Directed
against the contracting limits of tolerance, this volume attempts
to reinvent the troubled notion of the 'right to the city'.
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