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The New Urban Question
Author(s): Andy Merrifield (Author)
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication Date: 18 Mar. 2014
- Language: English
- Print length: 160 pages
- ISBN-10: 0745334830
- ISBN-13: 9780745334837
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Merrifield is accessible, optimistic and even fun”An exciting writer who brings a fresh perspective to the political debate”Read Merrifield, whose writing is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly arid intellectual field’
About the Author
Andy Merrifield is a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and the author of numerous books including The New Urban Question, (Pluto, 2014) Magical Marxism (Pluto, 2011) and The Wisdom of Donkeys (Short Books, 2009).
