The Urbanization of Injustice

ISBN 10: 0814755763 / ISBN 13: 9780814755761

Published by NYU Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Urbanization of Injustice
• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814755763
• ISBN 13: 9780814755761
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

With the advent of AIDS, the proliferation of gangs and drugs, and the uneasy sensation that Big Brother is actually watching us, the dark side of urban living seems to be overshadowing the brighter side of pleasure, liberation, and opportunity.
The Urbanization of Injustice chronicles these bleak urban images, while taking to task exclusivist politics, globalization theory, and superficial environmentalism. Exploring the links between urbanism, power, and justice, The Urbanization of Injustice presents the thoughts and theories of Edward Soja, David Harvey, Marshall Bermann, Doreen Masey, Sharon Zukin, Susan Fainstein, Ira Katznelson, Nell Smith, and Michael Keith in one cohesive volume, bringing us one step closer to genuinely humane and socially just urban practices.

About the Author

ANDY MERRIFIELD is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books, as well as numerous
articles, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, New
Left Review, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Jacobin, and Dissent. He is a prolific writer about
urbanism, political theory and literature, with titles credited to him including Dialectical
Urbanism (Monthly Review Press), The New Urban Question, and Magical Marxism. He has also
published three intellectual biographies, of Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and John Berger, a
popular existential travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys, a manifesto for liberated living, The
Amateur, together with a memoir about cities and love, inspired by Raymond Carver’s short
stories, called What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love).