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This book examines the city as the heart of both capital and class struggles around the world.
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…
As vibrant places of exchange, arrival cities have long been indicators of social health. Whenever migrant populations are systematically ignored, we should expect violence and extremism. But as Saunders demonstrates, when we make proper investment in our arrival cities, a prosp…
Focuses on the fastest-growing immigrant populations among "second-tier" metropolitan areas. Examines the changes wrought by these new suburban settlement patterns and provides comparative analysis of immigration trends and local policy responses in these gateways. Case examples…
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.