Reconsidering Localism

by Simin Davoudi

Book Overview

"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from leading academics in Europe and North America to develop a theoretically-grounded critique and definition of the new localism, and how it has come...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415735629
• ISBN13: 9780415735629
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"