"In Everyday Equalities, four leading scholars in critical urban geography come together to deliver a powerful message about the meaning of equality in contemporary cities. Drawing on both theoretical reflection and urban ethnographic research, they offer the formulation "being …
Introduction: everyday urban multicultures : encountering difference, enacting equality -- Encounters with difference in the urban everyday : a relational approach -- The political potential of encounters : being together in difference as equals -- Making a home in Melbourne -- …
If city life is a "being together of strangers," what forms of being together should we strive for in cities with ethnic and racial diversity? 'Everyday Equalities' seeks evidence of progressive political alternatives to racialized inequality that are emerging from everyday enco…
This book examines the role, history and function of public libraries in contemporary societies as motors that drive development. It analyses through case studies, how contemporary libraries have been redesigned to offer a new kind of public space while also reshaping neglected …
The ultimate resource on strategies for redeveloping abandoned urban sites Architects, urban planners, urban designers, developers, city officials, and all those interested in revitalizing their post-industrial cities will find the tools they need here. Redeveloping Industrial S…
