Wounded cities
Subtitle: destruction and reconstruction in a globalized world
By: edited by Jane Schneider and Ida Susser
Contributors: Schneider, Jane, 1938-; Susser, Ida
Publisher: Berg; Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Cities and towns; Urban violence; Urban warfare; Urban renewal; Urban policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Wounded cities: deconstruction and reconstruction in a globalized world / Ida Susser and Jane Schneider; title: The city as a body politic / David Harvey; title: The depreciation of life during Mexico City's transition into 'the crisis' / Claudio Lomnitz; title: International commodity markets, local land markets and class conflict in a provincial Mexican city / Carol J. Meyers; title: Rethinking infastructure: Siberian cities and the great freeze of January 2001 / Caroline Humphrey; title: How Kingston was wounded / Donald Robotham; title: Wounded Medellín: narcotics traffic against a background of industrial decline / Mary Roldán; title: Global justice in the postindustrial city: urban activism beyond the global-local split / Jeff Maskovsky; title: After drugs and the 'war on drugs': reclaiming the power to make history in Harlem, New York / Leith Mullings; title: Bangkok, the bubble city / Ara Wilson; title: Contemporary Ho Chi Minh City in numerous contradictions: reform policy, foreign capital and the working class / Suhong Chae; title: Belfast: urban space, 'policing' and sectarian polarization / Dominic Bryan; title: 'Healing the wounds of the war': placing the war-displaced in postwar Beirut / Aseel Sawalha; title: Wounded Palermo / Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider; title: Epilogue: Baghdad, 2003 / Jane Schneider and Ida Susser