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The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780262549226 |
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Publisher: | MIT Press |
Publication date: | 09/19/2023 |
Series: | Urban and Industrial Environments |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Theresa Enright is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1
Part I: Envisioning the Unified City
1 Paris and/Is Its Suburb 31
2 The Shared Dream of Grand Pari(s) 65
Part II: Connecting the Networked City
3 Transit Debates and the Contested Regime of Metromobility 97
4 The Mobilizing Myths of the Grand Paris Express 125
Part III: Governing the Competitive City
5 A Thousand Layers of Governance 159
6 Metropolitan Governance and Global City Productivism 191
Conclusion: Grand Urbanism in Perspective 221
Notes 241
References 261
Index 289
What People are Saying About This
In this investigation of the contemporary politics of 'Grand Paris' and its contradictions, Theresa Enright powerfully contributes to our understanding of emergent patterns and pathways of competitive metropolitan development in France, Europe, and beyond. Behind the ideological progressivism and monumental ambition surrounding such 'grand projects,' Enright's study reveals a growth-oriented, profit-driven, speculative, and broadly neoliberalizing approach to urbanism that will, she argues, reproduce the sociospatial inequalities they are ostensibly meant to counteract.This book is a key contribution to our understanding of metropolitan governance restructuring, as well as a useful intervention into broader debates regarding the variegated political-institutional forms in which neoliberal urbanism is being pursued.
Grand Paris, 'L'imagination au pouvoir?' Theresa Enright brings to light the contradictory forces surrounding 'Grand Paris'the dreamed world metropolis. She examines 'grand urbanism' in terms of the ideas of architects, the rescaling of governance, and the hard realities of various economic interests. A great read.
Patrick Le Galès, FBA, Research Professor Sciences Po/CNRS, Centre d'Etudes Européennes, Dean, Sciences Po Urban School
As Paris enters a remake not unlike the upheavals of the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Theresa Enright's fascinating book offers an indispensable guide to the global city region's newly networked future.
Roger Keil, York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies, York University, Toronto, editor of Suburban Governance: A Global ViewIn this investigation of the contemporary politics of 'Grand Paris' and its contradictions, Theresa Enright powerfully contributes to our understanding of emergent patterns and pathways of competitive metropolitan development in France, Europe, and beyond. Behind the ideological progressivism and monumental ambition surrounding such 'grand projects,' Enright's study reveals a growth-oriented, profit-driven, speculative, and broadly neoliberalizing approach to urbanism that will, she argues, reproduce the sociospatial inequalities they are ostensibly meant to counteract. This book is a key contribution to our understanding of metropolitan governance restructuring, as well as a useful intervention into broader debates regarding the variegated political-institutional forms in which neoliberal urbanism is being pursued.
Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design, author of New State Spaces and Critique of UrbanizationThe Making of Grand Paris introduces the notion of grand urbanism as a way of making sense of how some cities are seeking to author their own redevelopment. Giving us more, much more, than a single case study, Theresa Enright has delivered a book that goes straight to the top of the must-read list of any serious urban scholar.
Kevin Ward, Professor, University of Manchester, coeditor of Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global AgeGrand Paris, 'L'imagination au pouvoir?' Theresa Enright brings to light the contradictory forces surrounding 'Grand Paris'the dreamed world metropolis. She examines 'grand urbanism' in terms of the ideas of architects, the rescaling of governance, and the hard realities of various economic interests. A great read.
Patrick Le Galès, FBA, Research Professor Sciences Po/CNRS, Centre d'Etudes Européennes, Dean, Sciences Po Urban SchoolAs Paris enters a remake not unlike the upheavals of the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Theresa Enright's fascinating book offers an indispensable guide to the global city region's newly networked future.
The Making of Grand Paris introduces the notion of grand urbanism as a way of making sense of how some cities are seeking to author their own redevelopment. Giving us more, much more, than a single case study, Theresa Enright has delivered a book that goes straight to the top of the must-read list of any serious urban scholar.