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1. Cities for People, Not for Profit

   Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

   Edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, Margit Mayer

   The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
2. Searching for the Just City

   Debates in Urban Theory and Practice

   Edited by Peter Marcuse, James Connolly, Johannes Novy, Ingrid Olivo, Cuz Potter, Justin Steil

   Series: Questioning Cities

   Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge