Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder (Understanding Cities) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415200733 ISBN 13: 9780415200738

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.

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Synopsis

Cities are places of mixing and meeting - places where different worlds encounter one another on the streets. Yet cities are all too often seen as unruly places in need of government and control. Unruly Cities? asks questions about the ways in which cities mix different worlds. Taking a fresh approach to issues of order and disorder and extending our spatial understanding of cities, this book develops new insights into city life, using a wide variety of examples drawn from around the world. Unruly Cities? challenges the common-place assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by an order imposed from above. In fact, as this book shows, cities are open to many forms of order and disorder, from both within and beyond the city. Here are to be found cities' problems - and their potentials. Andy Blowers The Open University, UK, Chris Brook The Open University, UK, Allan Cochrane, The Open University, UK, Eugene McLaughlin The Open University, UK, Gerry Moon

About the Author

Steve Pile is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His publications include The Body and the City (1996) and Geographies of Resistance (1997), co-edited with Michael Keith) and Places through the Body (1998, co-edited with Heidi J. Nast). Chris Brook is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. His recent books include A Global World? 91995, co-edited with James Anderson and Allan Cochrane) and Asia Pacific in the New World Order (1997, co-edited with Anthony McGrew).
Gerry Mooney is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy in the Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Paisley. He has published widely on issues relating to developments in Social Policy and in the field of urban studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0415200733
• ISBN 13: 9780415200738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Brook Chris, Mooney Gerry, Pile Steve