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This title includes essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field.

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Author:   Jonathan S. Davies ,  David L. Imbroscio ,  Clarence N. Stone
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781438433066

ISBN 10:   1438433069
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   02 July 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Clarence N. Stone Acknowledgments Introduction Jonathan S. Davies and David L. Imbroscio PART I: Critical Urban Theory 1. City Elvin Wyly 2. Critical Perspectives on the City: Constructivist, Interpretive Analysis of Urban Politics Mara S. Sidney 3. Seeing like a City: How to Urbanize Political Science Warren Magnusson 4. Refl ections on Urbanity as an Object of Study and a Critical Epistemology Julie-Anne Boudreau 5. Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban Politics Jonathan S. Davies 6. Keeping it Critical: Resisting the Allure of the Mainstream David L. Imbroscio PART II: Critical Urban Policy 7. The Trouble with Diversity Jeff Spinner-Halev 8. Do Multicultural Cities Help Equality? Yasminah Beebeejaun 9. Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhoods? James DeFilippis and Jim Fraser 10. Dispersal as Anti-Poverty Policy Edward G. Goetz and Karen Chapple 11. Beyond Sprawl and Anti-Sprawl Thad Williamson Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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...this volume demonstrates that urban studies is not a stagnant discipline. Rather, the authors excelled at challenging a number of different orthodoxies to rethink approaches to and about mainstream politics and policies ... all researchers involved in urban issues of a wide range of disciplines will find this book of use. - Journal of Planning Education and Research The essays in Critical Urban Studies advance the enterprise of critical urban studies. They challenge a wide range of prevalent orthodoxies and illuminate several new directions on which subsequent critical scholarship and practice can build ... The inventive essays will inspire future urban scholars and activists to further advance the theory and practice of critique in even deeper and more transformative directions. - SirReadALot.org

Author Information

Jonathan S. Davies is Reader in Public Policy at the University of Warwick and the author of Partnerships and Regimes: The Politics of Urban Regeneration in the UK. David L. Imbroscio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville and the author of Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy. Together they coedited Theories of Urban Politics, Second Edition.

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