Routledge Transforming Cities: Contested Governance Book

Transforming Cities explores the deep changes within cities of advanced capitalist societies during the final decades of the twentieth century. This Routledge Library Edition provides a detailed analysis of how contest, conflict, and cooperation manifest through the social and spatial forms of modern urban life. By focusing on the impact of economic restructuring, the text examines how changing forms of urban deprivation and social exclusion shape our world. It provides a look at how these processes create new patterns of social division alongside new methods of regulation and control. This book is an essential resource for understanding the shifting dynamics of contemporary urban environments and the structural forces that define them.