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Title Urban politics : critical approaches / edited by Mark Davidson & Deborah Martin
Published London : SAGE, 2014
London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2014
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Description xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Contents note continued: 9.Making space in the multicultural city: immigrant settlement, neighbourhoods and urban politics / Jamie Winders -- 10.The embedded politics of entrepreneurs / Susan Hanson -- 11.Is class relevant to urban politics? / Mark Davidson -- 12.The urban imaginary of nature: cities in American environmental politics / Matthew Huber -- 13.Urban politics as parallax / Mark Davidson
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Thinking critically about urban politics / Deborah Martin -- SECTION 1 CITY AS SETTING -- Introduction to City as Setting / Deborah Martin -- 2.The neighbourhood as a place for (urban) politics / Deborah Martin -- 3.Splintered governance: urban politics in the twenty-first century / Kevin Ward -- 4.Ruthless: the foreclosure of American urban politics / Kathe Newman -- SECTION 2 CITY AS MEDIUM -- Introduction to City as Medium / Deborah Martin -- 5.Policing the city / Kurt Iveson -- 6.Mayors and the representation of urban politics / Donald McNeill -- 7.Making urban politics go away: the role of legally mandated planning processes in occluding city power / John Can -- SECTION 3 CITY AS COMMUNITY -- Introduction to City as Community / Mark Davidson -- 8.Queering the city: sexual citizenship in creative city Singapore / Natalie Oswin --
Summary This book provides a theoretical grounding with an extensive thematic overview. This approach links classical, institutional urban politics with a broader set of urban politics and practices
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cities and towns -- Political aspects.
Metropolitan government.
Municipal government.
Urban geography.
Author Davidson, Mark, 1979- editor of compilation
Martin, Deborah (Geographer), editor of compilation
LC no. 2013936854
ISBN 0857023977
0857023985
9780857023971
9780857023988