Wounded cities : destruction and reconstruction in a globalized world /
Explores how urban populations are affected by wounds inflicted through violence, civil wars, overbuilding, drug trafficking, and the collapse of infrastructures, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes. Adopting a grass roots up approach, this book places emphasis on peoples' experien...
| Други автори: | Schneider, Jane, 1938-, Susser, Ida. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2003.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=328460 |
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Print version::
Wounded cities. |
Съдържание:
- Wounded cities: deconstruction and reconstruction in a globalized world / Ida Susser and Jane Schneider
- The city as a body politic / David Harvey
- The depreciation of life during Mexico City's transition into 'the crisis' / Claudio Lomnitz
- International commodity markets, local land markets and class conflict in a provincial Mexican city / Carol J. Meyers
- Rethinking infastructure: Siberian cities and the great freeze of January 2001 / Caroline Humphrey
- How Kingston was wounded / Donald Robotham
- Wounded Medellin: narcotics traffic against a background of industrial decline / Mary Roldan
- Global justice in the postindustrial city: urban activism beyond the global-local split / Jeff Maskovsky
- After drugs and the 'war on drugs': reclaiming the power to make history in Harlem, New York / Leith Mullings
- Bangkok, the bubble city / Ara Wilson
- Contemporary Ho Chi Minh City in numerous contradictions: reform policy, foreign capital and the working class / Suhong Chae
- Belfast: urban space, 'policing' and sectarian polarization / Dominic Bryan
- 'Healing the wounds of the war': placing the war-displaced in postwar Beirut / Aseel Sawalha
- Wounded Palermo / Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider
- Epilogue: Baghdad, 2003 / Jane Schneider and Ida Susser.