The New Urban Question - Softcover

Merrifield, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745334830 ISBN 13: 9780745334837

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2014

Synopsis

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism. From Haussmann’s attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the urban experience has been profoundly shaped by class antagonism and been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions. Going beyond the work of earlier urban theorists such as Manuel Castells, Merrifield identifies the new urban question that has emerged and demands urgent attention, as the city becomes a site of active plunder by capital and the setting for new forms of urban struggle, from Occupy to the Indignados.

About this title

Review:

'Merrifield is accessible, optimistic and even fun' New York Times

About the Author:

Andy Merrifield is a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and the author of numerous books including Magical Marxism (Pluto, 2011) and The Wisdom of Donkeys (2009).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0745334830
• ISBN 13: 9780745334837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160