Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

by Margit Mayer, Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse

The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415601789
• ISBN13: 9780415601788
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"