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Remaking New York
William Sites
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Description for Remaking New York
paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 halftones, 1 graph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GT; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Uses New York City to discuss the ways that policy has mismanaged the effects of globalization
Inequality increases, instability grows, communities fragment: this is the fate of a city in the wake of globalization—but is globalization really the cause? Proposing a new perspective on politics, globalization, and the city, this provocative book argues that such urban problems result in part from U.S. policies that can be changed.
William Sites develops the concept of primitive globalization, identifying a pattern of reactive politics—ad hoc measures to subsidize business, displace the urban poor, and dismantle the welfare state—that uproots social actors (corporations, citizens, urban residents) ... Read more In the process, the story of late twentieth-century New York and its Lower East Side community emerges as something different: not a tale of globalist transformation or of local resurgence but a distinctly American case, one in which urban politics and the state, in their own right, exacerbate inequality and community fragmentation within the city. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816641567
SKU
V9780816641567
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About William Sites
William Sites is associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.
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