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Cities, Politics and Power

Traditionally, the study of power in the city was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies. Increasingly, however, attention has turned to the function of the city not only as a centre of urban governance but as a major economic, social, cultural and strategic force in its own right.

Cities, Politics and Power combines this traditional concern with how the cities in which we live are organised and run with a broader focus on cities and urban regions as multiple sites and agents of power. This book is divided into five parts, with a short introduction outlining the argument and organisation of the text. then explores the ways in which the political is constituted by urban inhabitants, and how social identity, information and communication networks, and the natural and built environment all comprise intersecting fields of urban power. The conclusion calls for a broader theoretical and thematic approach to the study of urban politics.

This book makes extensive use of comparative and historical case studies, providing broad coverage of politics and urban movements in both the Global North and the Global South, with a particular focus on the UK, USA, Canada, Latin America and China. It is written in an accessible and lucid style and provides suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter.

Simon Parker is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York where he teaches urban theory and comparative politics. He is the author of Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City (Routledge, 2004).

Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city

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The series is designed to allow undergraduate readers to make sense of, and find a critical way into, urbanism. It will:

Cover a broad range of themes

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The series covers social, political, economic, cultural and spatial concerns. It will appeal to students in architecture, cultural studies, geography, popular culture, sociology, urban studies and urban planning. It will be trans-disciplinary. Firmly situated in the present, it also introduces material from the cities of modernity and post-modernity.

Published:

Cities and Consumption Mark Jayne

Cities and Cultures Malcolm Miles

Cities and Nature Lisa Benton-Short and John Rennie Short

Cities and Economies Yeong-Hyun Kim and John Rennie Short

Cities and Cinema Barbara Mennel

Cities and Gender Helen Jarvis with Paula Kantor and Jonathan Cloke

Cities and Design Paul L. Knox

Cities, Politics and Power Simon Parker

Forthcoming:

Children, Youth and the City Kathrin Hrshelmann and Lorraine van Blerk

Cities and Sexualities Phil Hubbard

Cities, Politics and Power

Simon Parker

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2011
by Routledge
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2011 Simon Parker

The right of Simon Parker to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Parker, Simon, 1964
Cities, politics, and power / by Simon Parker.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Cities and towns. 2. Municipal government. 3. Sociology, Urban. I. Title.
HT151.P345 2010
320.85dc22
2010013449

ISBN 0-203-01828-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN: 9780415365796 (hbk)

ISBN: 9780415365802 (pbk)

ISBN: 9780203018286 (ebk)

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Contents

Figures

Figure 1a	A wall painting from the Neolithic atalhyk settlement in present-day Turkey
Figure 1b	A drawing of the atalhyk map
Figure 2	Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1285c.1348), Allegory of Good Government
Figure 3	KL Buchenwald
Figure 4	Stari Most after its reconstruction following the shelling of 1993
Figure 5	A plume of smoke rises over Gaza City following an Israeli air attack during Operation Cast Lead
Figure 6	Varieties of urban political organisation
Figure 7	A sprawling informal settlement on the outskirts of Metro Manila
Figure 8	The former headquarters of the London County Council and Greater London Council
Figure 9	The web of London government
Figure 10	The London Docklands development
Figure 11	The European mega-region known as the blue banana
Figure 12	A Protestant Orange Order Lodge marches on 12 July to commemorate the victory of King William of Orange during the Battle of the Boyne in 1690
Figure 13	The top 10 connected business service cities in terms of media connectivity by ranks
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