Securing Urbanism Contagion, Power and Risk
Synopsis
This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s overall argument or premise, the reader is taken in Part I through a range of contemporary critical and political understandings of urban securitizing. This is followed by an historical urban landscape of emerging liberalism and neo-liberalism, in nineteenth-century Britain and twentieth-century United States, respectively. These case-study historical chapters enable the introduction of key political issues that are more critically assayed in Parts II and III. With Part II, the reader is introduced in depth to a series of spatial analyses undertaken by Michel Foucault that have been crucial for especially late-twentieth and twenty-first century urban theory and political geography. With Part III the full ramifications of a paradigmatic shift are explored at the level of rethinking territory, population and design.This book is timely and useful for readers who want to develop a stronger understanding of what the book’s researchers term a new political paradigm in urban planning, one ultimately governed by global economic forces that define the end of probability.
Book details
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2020
- Author:
- Mark Laurence Jackson, Mark Hanlen
- ISBN:
- 9789811599644
- Related ISBNs:
- 9789811599637
- Publisher:
- Springer Singapore, Singapore
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2021-03-01
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Copyright by:
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Earth Sciences, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Sociology