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Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder
Steve Pile
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Description for Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder
Paperback. This textbook challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above. Editor(s): Pile, Steve; etc.; Brook, Chris (The Open University); Mooney, Gerry (The University of Paisley). Series: Understanding Cities. Num Pages: 378 pages, photos, diagrams, maps. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 191 x 24. Weight in Grams: 822.
The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.
The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Cities
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415200745
SKU
V9780415200745
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Steve Pile
Steve Pile is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His publications include The Body and the City (1996) and Geographies of Resistance (1997), co-edited with Michael Keith) and Places through the Body (1998, co-edited with Heidi J. Nast). Chris Brook is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. His recent books ... Read more
Reviews for Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder
`Readable - accessible to undergraduates and certainly interesting to postgraduates...good range of questions and is up-to-date and relavant to current concerns.' - - Malcolm Miles, Oxford Brookes University, UK `Very good on current social theory, good case studies...excellent photographs and global coverage.' - - Dr David Sibley, Hull University, UK `...this text provides an illuminating and intelligent understanding ... Read more