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Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles In Capitalist City

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Dialectical Urbanism discusses a range of urban issues, developing a perspective from which the contradictory nature of the politics of the city comes more clearly into view. Andy Merrifield explores the urban community experience through detailed case-studies set in Liverpool, Baltimore, New York, and Los Angeles. Issues which affect the quality of everyday life in the city—gentrification and development, affordable rents, the accountability of local government, the domination of the urban landscape by new corporate giants, and policing—are located in the context of larger political and economic forces. At the same time, the narrative constantly returns to those moments in which city-dwellers discover and develop their capacity to challenge larger forces and decide their own conditions of life.

This lively and many-sided narrative is constantly informed by broader analyses and reflections on the city and engages with these analyses in turn. It fuses scholarship and political engagement into a powerful defense of the possibilities of life in the metropolis today.

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Dialectical Urbanism discusses a range of urban issues, developing a perspective from which the contradictory nature of the politics of the city comes more clearly into view. Andy Merrifield explores the urban community experience through detailed case-studies set in Liverpool, Baltimore, New York, and Los Angeles. Issues which affect the quality of everyday life in the city—gentrification and development, affordable rents, the accountability of local government, the domination of the urban landscape by new corporate giants, and policing—are located in the context of larger political and economic forces. At the same time, the narrative constantly returns to those moments in which city-dwellers discover and develop their capacity to challenge larger forces and decide their own conditions of life.

This lively and many-sided narrative is constantly informed by broader analyses and reflections on the city and engages with these analyses in turn. It fuses scholarship and political engagement into a powerful defense of the possibilities of life in the metropolis today.

 

Publisher: Monthly Review Press

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2002

ISBN: 9781583670606

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