Cities and Power: Worldwide Perspectives
Author:   Göran Therborn (University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138123809


Pages:   116
Publication Date:   28 January 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Göran Therborn (University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9781138123809


ISBN 10:   1138123803
Pages:   116
Publication Date:   28 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Cities and power 2. Ancient cities and power: the archaeology of urbanism in the Iron Age capitals of northern Mesopotamia 3. Hidden and exposed faces of power in Buenos Aires 4. Tshwane and spaces of power in South Africa 5. Cities of power and protest: spatial legibility and the colonial state in early twentieth-century India 6. Power and time turning: The capital, the state and the kampung in Jakarta 7. Planet Moscow, a guide to the changing landscape of power 8. City power and urban fiscal crises: the USA, China, and India 9. The landscape of Tokyo power 10. Cities (and regions) within a city: subnational representations and the creation of European imaginaries in Brussels

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Göran Therborn is Professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has worked on all the populated continents of the world, and has dealt with a number of themes and topics in numerous publications, including cities as places of power, processes of inequality, sex, gender, and family relations, waves and processes of globalization, world pathways to modernity, unemployment and social policies in comparative perspective, the history of democracy and the right to vote.

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