Cities for people, not for profit [electronic resource] : critical urban theory and the right to the city / edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Cities for people, not for profit : an introduction / Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, and Margit Mayer -- 2. What is critical urban theory? / Neil Brenner -- 3. Whose right(s) to what city? / Peter Marcuse -- 4. Henri Lefebvre, the right to the city, and the new metropolitan mainstream / Christain Schmid -- 5. The 'right to the city' in urban social movements / Margit Mayer -- 6. Space and revolution in theory and practice : eight theses / Kanishka Goonewardena -- 7. The praxis of planning and the contributions of critical development studies / Katharin N. Rankin -- 8. Assemblages, actor-networks, and the challenges of critical urban theory / Neil Brenner, David J. Madden, and David Wachsmuth -- 9. The new urban growth ideology of 'creative cities' / Stefan Kráeatke -- 10. Critical theory and 'gray space' : mobilization of the colonized / Oren Yiftachel -- 11. Missing Marcuse : on gentrification and displacement / Tom Slater -- 12. An actually existing just city? : the fight for the right to the city in Amsterdam / Justus Uitermark -- 13. A critical approach to solving the housing problem / Peter Marcuse -- 14. Socialist cities, for people or for power? / Bruno Flierl in conversation with Peter Marcuse -- 15. The right to the city : from theory to grassroots alliance / Jon Liss -- 16. What is to be done? : and who the hell is going to do it? / David Harvey with David Wachsmuth.

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