Description: Urbanism without Guarantees by Christian M. Anderson A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification.The book FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification.The book is centered on ethnographic work undertaken on a single street in Clinton/Hells Kitchen in New York City-once a site of disinvestment, but now rapidly gentrifying. Anderson examines the everyday strategies of residents to preserve the quality of life of their neighborhood and to define and maintain their values of urban living-from picking up litter and reporting minor concerns on the 311 hotline to hiring a private security firm to monitor the local public park. Anderson demonstrates how processes such as investment and gentrification are constructed out of the collective actions of ordinary people, and challenges prevalent understandings of how place-based civic actions connect with dominant forms of political economy and repressive governance in urban space. Examining how residents are pulled into these systems of gentrification, Anderson proposes new ways to think and act critically and organize for transformation of a place-in actions that local residents can start to do wherever they are. Author Biography Christian M. Anderson is associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington at Bothell. Table of Contents ContentsIntroduction: Situating a StruggleI. Renovating and Making the Urban Question Critical: Toward a Parallax Urbanism1. Fateful Leaps: Flipping the Script on Rent Gaps and Revanchism 2. Unsettling the Urban Question3. The Contingencies of Civic Action, Revisited4. The Hitch, or, Performative InfrastructureII. Place-Embedded Stories and Other Incitements to Parallax Urbanism5. A Brief (Infrastructural?) History of West Forty-Sixth Street6. Specters, Traditions, and the Dominance of Common Sense7. Battles, Contradictions, and Good SenseConclusion: This Hegemony Is a DragAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex Review "From a long-term immersion on an (extra)ordinary block on the Westside of NYC, Christian M. Anderson demonstrates how the blunt powers of urban restructuring are intricately nestled in the jostling of everyday compositions of things through which collectives are made—collectives stitched and woven by the everyday efforts to keep social violence at bay, which can both support and undermine new forms of living, and which then demand a new politics of those spaces in-between."—AbdouMaliq Simone, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield"Conceptually rich, artfully crafted, and with a striking immediacy, Urbanism without Guarantees offers a compelling analysis of the meanings of urban change from the perspective of ordinary residents."—Christine Hentschel, Hamburg University "A fascinating new book."—Viewing NYC"Christian Andersons Urbanism without Guarantees takes its name from Stuart Halls Marxism without Guarantees (1983) and lives up to its name by delivering a critical Marxist analysis of everyday life."—Myung In Ji, ANTIPODE Long Description A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees , Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification. The book is centered on ethnographic work undertaken on a single street in Clinton/Hells Kitchen in New York City--once a site of disinvestment, but now rapidly gentrifying. Anderson examines the everyday strategies of residents to preserve the quality of life of their neighborhood and to define and maintain their values of urban living--from picking up litter and reporting minor concerns on the 311 hotline to hiring a private security firm to monitor the local public park. Anderson demonstrates how processes such as investment and gentrification are constructed out of the collective actions of ordinary people, and challenges prevalent understandings of how place-based civic actions connect with dominant forms of political economy and repressive governance in urban space. Examining how residents are pulled into these systems of gentrification, Anderson proposes new ways to think and act critically and organize for transformation of a place--in actions that local residents can start to do wherever they are. Review Quote "From a long-term immersion on an (extra)ordinary block on the Westside of NYC, Christian M. Anderson demonstrates how the blunt powers of urban restructuring are intricately nestled in the jostling of everyday compositions of things through which collectives are made--collectives stitched and woven by the everyday efforts to keep social violence at bay, which can both support and undermine new forms of living, and which then demand a new politics of those spaces in-between."--AbdouMaliq Simone, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield "Conceptually rich, artfully crafted, and with a striking immediacy, Urbanism without Guarantees offers a compelling analysis of the meanings of urban change from the perspective of ordinary residents."--Christine Hentschel, Hamburg University Details ISBN1517907411 Author Christian M. Anderson Pages 312 Year 2020 ISBN-10 1517907411 ISBN-13 9781517907419 Format Hardcover Short Title Urbanism Without Guarantees Language English Subtitle The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Publication Date 2020-03-24 UK Release Date 2020-03-24 Imprint University of Minnesota Press Place of Publication Minnesota Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2020-03-24 US Release Date 2020-03-24 Illustrations 10 Publisher University of Minnesota Press Series Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds DEWEY 307.7609747 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-04-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:128990219;
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ISBN-13: 9781517907419
Book Title: Urbanism without Guarantees
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Urbanism Without Guarantees: the Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Anthropology
Item Height: 216 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Christian M. Anderson
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Item Width: 140 mm
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