Getting Political in the Neoliberal City
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Getting Political in the Neoliberal City

Planning and Design for Social and Environmental Justice

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eBook - ePub

Getting Political in the Neoliberal City

Planning and Design for Social and Environmental Justice

About this book

In a world defined by ever-deepening crises—climate, social, economic, and political—urban spaces emerge as both battlegrounds of injustice and the arenas of possibility. Getting Political in the Neoliberal City interrogates the roles of planners, architects, designers, and urban citizens in challenging the pervasive inequities of neoliberal urbanism. Drawing from critical case studies spanning continents and disciplines, this volume reframes the intersections of spatial and social justice to illuminate how space becomes a site of power, exclusion, and potential resistance.

Through incisive essays and reflective scholarship, this book explores how cities are shaped by market forces and neoliberal governance, yet also serve as sites for insurgent practices at various scale, grassroots movements, and alternative imaginaries that resist dominant modes of urbanization and claim just ways of making cities. Highlighting the emergencess of new epistemologies, subjectivities and critical agencies, Getting Political in the Neoliberal City calls for a transformative rethinking of urban and environmental planning, design, and citizenship.

Featuring contributions from scholars and practitioners in diverse fields, including architecture, geography, political science, and anthropology, the book maps the tensions between depoliticized scholarly and professional practices and the urgent need for politicized action. With compelling examples from Australia, Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, the USA, and Sweden, this book offers fresh insights into ongoing research on the struggles for more equitable, inclusive, and environmentally just cities. It also provides opportunities to understand the historical contextuality of each case and to reflect on the nuances, similarities, and global connections between different cases across different geographies.

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Yes, you can access Getting Political in the Neoliberal City by Melissa Cate Christ,Cristina Cerulli,Burcu Yiğit Turan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Urban Planning & Landscaping. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
  9. 1 Why Getting Political, Why Now?
  10. 2 Plants as Allies in the Recombinant Trajectories of Ultimo, Sydney, Australia
  11. 3 From Waste Injustice and Environmental Racism Toward Restorative Justice: Dismantling Socio-Spatial Manifestations of White Supremacy in the Design and Planning of Waste Landscapes
  12. 4 Did the Danish Welfare Architects Leave Any Heirs? How Current Practices Operate Within, Against, and Beside Neoliberalism
  13. 5 Just Standards: Delineating the Potential of Green Space Provision Standards to Increase Environmental Justice
  14. 6 The Stickiness of Conducting Fieldwork in Spatial Design Research: A Case Study in Hong Kong
  15. 7 Urban Design In, Against, and Beyond Neoliberal Public Space: Everyday Appropriations and the Redesign of Malmö’s Western Harbor Promenade
  16. 8 Temporary Spaces in Peripheral Urban Areas: Building Situated Knowledge, Not Best Practices
  17. 9 Countermapping States of Exception in Cyprus: Critical Urban Practice in Architectural Education
  18. 10 Vila Autódromo: Governmental Tactics to Remove a Defiant Favela
  19. Index