Wounded cities : destruction and reconstruction in a globalized world /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schneider, Jane, 1938-, Susser, Ida
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Wounded cities: deconstruction and reconstruction in a globalized world / Ida Susser and Jane Schneider
  • The city as a body politic / David Harvey
  • The depreciation of life during Mexico City's transition into 'the crisis' / Claudio Lomnitz
  • International commodity markets, local land markets and class conflict in a provincial Mexican city / Carol J. Meyers
  • Rethinking infrastructure: Siberian cities and the great freeze of January 2001 / Caroline Humphrey
  • How Kingston was wounded / Donald Robotham
  • Wounded Medellín: narcotics traffic against a background of industrial decline / Mary Roldán
  • Global justice in the postindustrial city: urban activism beyond the global-local split / Jeff Maskovsky
  • After drugs and the 'war on drugs': reclaiming the power to make history in Harlem, New York / Leith Mullings
  • Bangkok, the bubble city / Ara Wilson
  • Contemporary Ho Chi Minh City in numerous contradictions: reform policy, foreign capital and the working class / Suhong Chae
  • Belfast: urban space, 'policing' and sectarian polarization / Dominic Bryan
  • 'Healing the wounds of the war': placing the war-displaced in postwar Beirut / Aseel Sawalha
  • Wounded Palermo / Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider
  • Epilogue: Baghdad, 2003 / Jane Schneider and Ida Susser.