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This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing neoliberal restructuring, and grapples with profound questions and challenging policy considerations about diversity, equity, and justice. A stimulant to debate in any undergraduate urban studies classroom, this book will inspire a new generation of urban social scholars.
Introduction: Encountering the City – Multiple Perspectives on Urban Social Change
Introduction: Encountering the City – Multiple Perspectives on Urban Social Change
The great buildings of civilization; the meeting places, the libraries and theatres, the towers and the domes; and often more than these the houses, the streets, the press and excitement of so many people with so many purposes. I have stood in many cities and felt this pulse; in the physical differences of Stockholm and Florence, Paris and Milan; this identifiable and moving quality; the centre, the activity and light. Like everyone else I have also felt the chaos of the metro and the traffic jam; the monotony of the ranks of houses, the aching press of strange crowds, this sense ...
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