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Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans
Purchase the book here. Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a historically-grounded comparative study to examine the redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of research in the two cities, Gotham and Greenberg contend that New York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities, representing a free-market approach…
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Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism
Read the journal article here. Urban political ecology (UPE), an offshoot of political ecology that emerged in the late 1990s, has had two major impacts on critical urban studies: it has introduced critical political ecology to urban settings, and it has provided a framework for retheorizing the city as a product of metabolic processes of…
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What on Earth Is Sustainable?
Read the article here. This article analyzes prevalent forms of sustainability discourse in California and around the world: eco-oriented sustainabilities, vernacular sustainabilities, justice-oriented sustainabilities, and market-oriented sustainabilities. It sketches the history of these discourses, argues that the meaning of sustainability depends on whose sustainability is being discussed, and lays out a framework for critical sustainability…
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Critical Sustainabilities Project (2013)
Critical Sustainabilities Project (2013) The Critical Sustainabilities project originated in 2012–2013 as a series of workshops attended by students and faculty at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the University of San Francisco, and supported by the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). It continues today, in expanded form, through this website. Our…
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Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World
Purchase the book here. Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of “image” in urban history, showing who produces brands and how, and demonstrates the enormous consequences of branding. She shows that the branding of New…