{"product_id":"landscape-of-discontent-9780816689637","title":"Landscape of Discontent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From Haussmann to \u003ci\u003eCharlie Hebdo\u003c\/i\u003e, Paris has always demanded our attention. Efforts to vigilantly reimagine the city and its inhabitants remain one of the most important tasks in this urban century, and Andrew Newman’s \u003ci\u003eLandscape of Discontent\u003c\/i\u003e provides masterful insights into what urban nature has been and can be.\"—Nik Heynen, University of Georgia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Newman has crafted a dynamic account of how local residents and activists can transform a social and physical urban environment by drawing in the very political forces—including city planners—that imagine themselves as the true shapers of that reality.\"—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a fantastic book that should be required reading for anyone invested in debates on the right to the city, urban political ecology, and the cultural politics of belonging in contemporary France.\"—\u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An important contribution to a small, but growing body of Anglophone literature on housing and the built environment in late twentieth-century France.\"—\u003ci\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLandscape of Discontent \u003c\/i\u003emakes an important contribution to the politics of urban development, environmental activism, political power, and ethnocultural relations within the contemporary global city of Paris.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The author describes the grassroots protests opposing the rail company–led project for economic development and the political moves leading to the building of the park, bringing to light the actions and motives of activists and inhabitants, through interviews, conversations, and his own involvement in daily activities in the neighborhood.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Urban Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Through research with residents, activists, and urban planners, Newman weaves together a detailed ethnography of grassroots mobilization with a structural analysis of neoliberal urbanism.\"—\u003ci\u003eMetropolitics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Poets and Locomotives: Ecology and Politics on the Margins of Paris \u003cbr\u003e2. Space, Style, and Grassroots Strategy in the Éole Mobilization\u003cbr\u003e3. Cultivating the Republic? Parks, Gardens, and Youth\u003cbr\u003e4. The End(s) of Urban Ecology in the Global City\u003cbr\u003e5. To Watch and Be Watched: Urban Design, Vigilance, and Contested Streets\u003cbr\u003e6. The Political Life of Small Urban Spaces\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038554587479,"sku":"9780816689637","price":31.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816689637.jpg?v=1750940658","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landscape-of-discontent-9780816689637","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}