Cities for people, not for profit : critical urban theory and the right to the city / edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. - xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cities for people, not for profit: an introduction/ Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer -- What is critical urban theory?/ Neil Brenner -- 3. Whose right(s) to what city?/ Peter Marcuse -- 4. Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city, and the new metropolitan mainstream/ Christian Schmid -- 5. The "right to the city" in urban social movements/ Margit Mayer -- 6. Space and revolution in theory and practice: eight theses/ Kanishka Goonewardena -- 7. The praxis of planning and the contributions of critical development studies/ Katharine N. Rankin -- 8. Assemblages, actor-networks, and the challenges of critical urban theory/ Neil Brenner, David J. Madden, and David Wachsmuth -- 9. The new urban growth ideology of "creative cities"/ Stefan Kratke -- 10. Critical theory and "gray space": mobilization of the colonized/ Oren Yiftachel -- 11. Missing Marcuse: on gentrification and displacement/ Tom Slater -- 12. An actually existing just city? The fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam/ Justus Uitermark -- 13. A critical approach to solving the housing problem/ Perter Marcuse -- 14. Socialist cities, for people or for power?/ Bruno Flierl in coversation with Peter Marcuse -- 15. The right to the city: from theory to grassroots alliance/ Jon Liss -- 16. What is to be done? And who the hell is going to do it? David Harvey with David Wachsmuth -- Afterward/ Peter Marcuse.

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Sociology, Urban
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