Dialectical urbanism
Subtitle: social struggles in the capitalist city
By: Andy Merrifield.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Urbanization; Sociology, Urban; Cities and towns; City and town life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dialectical urbanism and the metropolitan spirit; title: Canned heat : class struggles around the built environment in Baltimore; title: Them and us? : rebuilding the ruins in Liverpool; title: The urbanization of labor : living wage activism in Los Angeles; title: Disorder and zero tolerance : the dialectics of dystopia; title: Lepers at the city gate : single room occupancy and New York's housing crisis; title: Two-fold urbanism : a negative dialectic of the city.