Machine generated contents note: 1.Whither Urban Studies? -- 2.Old Urban Questions Revisited (and Reconstituted) -- 3.Cities Under Tension -- 4.Strategic Embellishment and Urban Civil War -- 5.Sentimental Urban Education -- 6.Urban Jacobinism -- 7.Old Discourse on New Inequality -- 8.Every Revolution has Its Agora -- 9.Taking Back Urban Politics -- 10.Whose City? The Parasites', of course...
Summary
'The New Urban Question' is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism. From Haussmann's use of urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of revolution to contemporary urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the urban experience has been profoundly shaped by class antagonism and been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions.
