Private cities: Global and Local Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Human Geography) - Softcover

Glasze, Georg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415511402 ISBN 13: 9780415511407

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life.

Contributed to, and edited by, an international team of leading authors, this revealing book constructs an interdisciplinary discourse on the global spread of private communities based upon empirical evidence. Case studies from the US, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and China are used to explore local and global explanations of the phenomenon.

Taking an institutionalist approach, this informative textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers alike, develops a model in which cities are shaped by the interplay of local and global processes, and evolve at the interface of spontaneous and planned order. It draws together the various themes, propositions and hypotheses in a way that clarifies the questions by different social science perspectives and that poses researchable questions and new agendas.

About this title

About the Author

Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415511402
• ISBN 13: 9780415511407
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256