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Cities for people, not for profit : critical urban theory and the right to the city / Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; Routledge, 2012.Description: xii, 284 p. : 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415601788 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.121601 BRE
Contents:
1. Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer; 2. What is critical urban theory? Neil Brenner; 3. Whose right(s) to what city? Peter Marcuse; 4. Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city and the new metropolitan mainstream Christian Schmid; 5. The ‘right to the city’ in urban social movements Margit Mayer; 6. Space and revolution in theory and practice: eight theses Kanishka Goonewardena; 7. Critical development studies and the praxis of planning Katharine N. Rankin; 8. Assemblages, actor networks and the challenges of critical urban theory Neil Brenner, David J. Madden and David Wachsmuth; 9. 'Creative cities’ and the rise of the dealer class Stefan Krätke; 10. Critical theory and ‘gray space’: mobilization of the colonized Oren Yiftachel; 11. Missing Marcuse: on gentrification and displacement Tom Slater; 12. An actually existing just city? The fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam Justus Uitermark; 13. A critical approach to solving the housing problem Peter Marcuse; 14. Socialist cities, for people or for power? Bruno Flierl in conversation with Peter Marcuse; 15. Right to the city – from theory to alliance Jon Liss; 16. What is to be done, and who the hell is going to do it? David Harvey with David Wachsmuth; Afterward by Peter Marcuse; Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer;
2. What is critical urban theory? Neil Brenner;
3. Whose right(s) to what city? Peter Marcuse;
4. Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city and the new metropolitan mainstream Christian Schmid;
5. The ‘right to the city’ in urban social movements Margit Mayer;
6. Space and revolution in theory and practice: eight theses Kanishka Goonewardena;
7. Critical development studies and the praxis of planning Katharine N. Rankin;
8. Assemblages, actor networks and the challenges of critical urban theory Neil Brenner, David J. Madden and David Wachsmuth;
9. 'Creative cities’ and the rise of the dealer class Stefan Krätke;
10. Critical theory and ‘gray space’: mobilization of the colonized Oren Yiftachel;
11. Missing Marcuse: on gentrification and displacement Tom Slater;
12. An actually existing just city? The fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam Justus Uitermark;
13. A critical approach to solving the housing problem Peter Marcuse;
14. Socialist cities, for people or for power? Bruno Flierl in conversation with Peter Marcuse;
15. Right to the city – from theory to alliance Jon Liss;
16. What is to be done, and who the hell is going to do it? David Harvey with David Wachsmuth;
Afterward by Peter Marcuse;
Index.