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Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres
emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are
currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly, the
availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure,
and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics. This
edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an
international dialogue about the production of alternative urban
spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of
work, dwelling, and public life. Seeking out and examining existing
alternative urban spaces, the authors identify the elements that
provide opportunities to create radically different futures for the
world's urban spaces. This volume is the culmination of an
international search for alternative practices to dominant modes of
capitalist urbanisation, bringing together interdisciplinary,
empirically grounded chapters from hot spots in disparate cities
around the world. Offering a multidisciplinary perspective, The
Production of Alternative Urban Spaces will be of great interest to
academics working across the fields of urban sociology, human
geography, anthropology, political science, and urban planning. It
will also be indispensable to any postgraduate students engaged in
urban and regional studies.
Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres
emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are
currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly, the
availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure,
and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics. This
edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an
international dialogue about the production of alternative urban
spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of
work, dwelling, and public life. Seeking out and examining existing
alternative urban spaces, the authors identify the elements that
provide opportunities to create radically different futures for the
world's urban spaces. This volume is the culmination of an
international search for alternative practices to dominant modes of
capitalist urbanisation, bringing together interdisciplinary,
empirically grounded chapters from hot spots in disparate cities
around the world. Offering a multidisciplinary perspective, The
Production of Alternative Urban Spaces will be of great interest to
academics working across the fields of urban sociology, human
geography, anthropology, political science, and urban planning. It
will also be indispensable to any postgraduate students engaged in
urban and regional studies.
This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing
the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of
alternative urban futures. It is a timely response to the ongoing
crises and pressing challenges that inhabitants of cities, towns,
and villages worldwide are faced with in the midst of what has been
widely dubbed as 'an urban age'. Starting from the premise that
current urban development patterns are unsustainable in every sense
of the word, the book explores how alternative patterns can be
pursued by the wide variety of actors - from governments and
international institutions to slum-dwellers and social movements -
involved in the on-going production of our shared urban condition.
The challenges addressed include exclusion and segregation;
persisting poverty and increasing inequality; urban sprawl and
changing land use patterns; and the spatial frames of urban policy.
As such the book appeals to urban scholars, policy makers,
activists, and others concerned with shaping the future of our
cities and of urban life in general. Additionally, it is of
interest to students in urban planning, architecture and design,
human geography, urban sociology, and related fields.
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