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Explores cities as the origin of revolutionary politics, where social and political issues are always at the surface, using examples from such cities as New York City and Mumbai to examine how they can be better ecologically reorganized.
This book examines the city as the heart of both capital and class struggles around the world.
Gender and the city before modernity
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Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space cropping up just about everywhere in the urban landscape. This book describes how the retailization of public domains affects our everyday life and our use of the built environment.
What will be remembered about our century, perhaps more than anything except global warming, is the final shift of human populations from agricultural life to cities, the effects of which are being felt around the world. Saunders introduces us to the migrants themselves, and wit…
How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a 'culture capital', Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She rejects the idea that…
Sharon Zukin's account of the changes going on in the urban landscape reflects the ways in which our public spaces are now no longer the domain of a single group, rather they're areas that are always open to negotiation by differing social groups.