Description
Book SynopsisA lucid and vibrant contribution to the field of urban studies, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.
Trade Review'Merrifield is accessible, optimistic and even fun' -- New York Times
'An exciting writer who brings a fresh perspective to the political debate' -- New Internationalist
'Read Merrifield, whose writing is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly arid intellectual field' -- Duncan Bowie, The Chartist
Table of ContentsPreface: Neo-Haussmannization and Its Discontents
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...
Afterword: The Parasitic Mode of Urbanization
Index
