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Conflicts in the City: Reflections on Urban Unrest
Luisdelromero Renau
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Description for Conflicts in the City: Reflections on Urban Unrest
Hardback. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: JF. Dimension: 260 x 180. .
The international financial crisis is the confirmation of the collapsing major social pact of the twentieth century: the progressive dismantling of the Welfare State, degradation of living conditions in the city, the rise of urban ghettos in European cities, etc. In southern European countries, two social and political failures of great significance have emerged: the failure of the promise of continuous standard of living improvements, with the verification that younger generations will have worse living conditions than their parents; and secondly, the failure of the binomy political democracy capitalism. This tension has meant suspending the regular democratic mechanisms in ... Read more
The international financial crisis is the confirmation of the collapsing major social pact of the twentieth century: the progressive dismantling of the Welfare State, degradation of living conditions in the city, the rise of urban ghettos in European cities, etc. In southern European countries, two social and political failures of great significance have emerged: the failure of the promise of continuous standard of living improvements, with the verification that younger generations will have worse living conditions than their parents; and secondly, the failure of the binomy political democracy capitalism. This tension has meant suspending the regular democratic mechanisms in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781634839136
SKU
V9781634839136
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About Luisdelromero Renau
Luis del Romero (Valencia, 1980), is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Valencia. He obtained his PhD in the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a thesis focused on innovative urban and regional planning tools. He has worked as a fellow researcher at the Laval University and University of Quebec in Canada, and has been ... Read more
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