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Cities, Nature and Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities
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ISBN-13: | 9781409408314 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 04/05/2012 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |
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Table of Contents
Contents: Part 1 Geographies of Wealth and Risk Accumulation: Neoliberal Policy and Resource Instrumentalism: Cities, nature and development: the politics and production of urban vulnerabilities, Sarah Dooling and Gregory Simon; Development, risk momentum and the ecology of vulnerability: a historical-relational analysis of the 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm, Gregory Simon; The neoliberal production of vulnerability and unequal risk, Timothy W. Collins and Anthony M. Jimenez; The production of urban vulnerability through market-based parks governance, Harold A. Perkins. Part 2 Unanticipated Vulnerabilities: Sustainability Planning, Environmental Movements, and Activism: Re-imagining the local: scale, race, culture, and the production of food vulnerabilities, Julian Agyeman and Benjamin L. Simons; Sustainability planning: ecological gentrification and the production of urban vulnerabilities, Sarah Dooling; Between here and there: mobilizing urban vulnerabilities in climate camps and transition towns, Kelvin Mason and Mark Whitehead. Part 3 Vulnerabilities in the Urbanizing Context: Cultural and Demographic Transformations: Co-opting restoration: women, voluntarism, and insurgent performance in Philadelphia, Alec Brownlow; Rust-to-resilience: local responses to urban vulnerabilities in Utica, New York, Jessica K. Graybill; The privilege of staying dry: the impact of flooding and racism on the emergence of the 'Mexican' ghetto in Austin's low-eastside, 1880-1935, Eliot M. Tretter and Melissa Adams; Epilogue; Index.