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The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French urban policy in English. Essential resource for contextualizing and understanding the revolts occurring in the French 'badland' neighbourhoods in autumn 2005 Challenges overarching generalizations about urban policy and contributes new research data to the wider body of urban policy literature Identifies a strong urban and spatial dimension within the shift towards more nationalistic and authoritarian policy governing French citizenship and immigration

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None of these criticisms detracts from the clarity of the core of Dikec's book, which offers the fullest account available in English of French urban policy. It contains only minor empirical errors and guides the reader lucidly through a quarter of a century of policy change in what is undoubtedly a key area of contemporary French society. (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 8 September 2008) It's a fine book. Doubly so, for not only does it meld theoretical deftness with convincing empirical information, it also has the virtue of taking us out of our English speaking milieu...Are you an inquisitive urban geographer? If so, having read Dikec as your indispensable primer, next time you're in Paris leave the Eiffel Tower behind and go out to La Courneuve. Or in Strasbourg, view the cathedral but then board the Line C tram right next to it which takes you out to Le Neuhof, like La Courneuve one of the original sixteen social development urban neighborhoods. Get a taste of another, and real, urban France. Dikec has. (Geographical Review, December 2010) Dikec's examination of French national policy development toward the suburban banlieues is tight and focused in its objectives and execution. (Annals of the Association of American Geographers and The Professional Geographer)

?This is a knowledgeable, intelligent, and highly readable account of an issue that has featured prominently in French politics and public policy during the last quarter of a century.? (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 8 September 2008) It's a fine book. Doubly so, for not only does it meld theoretical deftness with convincing empirical information, it also has the virtue of taking us out of our English speaking milieu...Are you an inquisitive urban geographer? If so, having read Dikec as your indispensable primer, next time you're in Paris leave the Eiffel Tower behind and go out to La Courneuve. Or in Strasbourg, view the cathedral but then board the Line C tram right next to it which takes you out to Le Neuhof, like La Courneuve one of the original sixteen social development urban neighborhoods. Get a taste of another, and real, urban France. Dikec has. (Geographical Review, December 2010) Dikec?s examination of French national policy development toward the suburban banlieues is tight and focused in its objectives and execution. (Annals of the Association of American Geographers and The Professional Geographer)

DikecC's examination of French national policy development toward the suburban banlieues is tight and focused in its objectives and execution. (Annals of the Association of American Geographers and The Professional Geographer)

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Mustafa Dikeç is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Dikeç was trained as an urban planner in Ankara, Turkey. He holds a master’s degree in urban design from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published articles on space, politics and justice, and on hospitality.

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