SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City by Ricky Burdett (2018, Hardcover)

Sage Publications Ltd

The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century CityAuthor(s): Suzanne Hall, Ricky Burdett\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: SAGE Publications Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781473907560, 978-1473907560\nSynopsis\nThe SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century Cityfocuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways, speaking to new ideas of what constitutes the urban, highlighting empirical explorations and expanding on contributions to policy and design. The handbook is organised around nine key themes, through which familiar analytic categories of race, gender and class, as well as binaries such as the urban/rural, are readdressed. These thematic sections together capture the volatile processes and intricacies of urbanisation that reveal the turbulent nature of our ea.