Divided Cities The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003

Name: Divided Cities The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003
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ISBN: 9780192807083

ISBN-10: 0192807080

ISBN-13: 9780192807083

Edition: 2006

Authors: Richard Scholar

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Based on the influential Oxford Amnesty Lectures, this volume explores what it is to be down and out in Paris and London, New York and Sao Paolo. It examines the forces shaping urbanization today and the divisions that threaten the world's cities; it considers too what can and should be done to bring these divisions to an end. The volume consists of essays by eight leading urban thinkers and practitioners: Patrick Declerck, Peter Hall, Stuart Hall, David Harvey, Michael Likosky,Richard Rogers, Patricia Williams, and James Wolfensohn, with commentaries from James Attlee, Stephen Howe, Maria Kaika, Sebastian Mallaby, Jane Shaw, and Erik Swyngedouw. Many contemporary issues are addressed,…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Richard Scholar is Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages at Oriel College, Oxford. His previous books include The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something (OUP, 2005).



Introduction




Lectures



Cosmopolitan Promises




Theatres of War




The Right to the City




The Undivided City




An Urban Renaissance




On the Necessary Suffering of the Homeless




Responses



'Who Should Foot the Bill?'




'Looking on the Bright Side'