Millennial Metropolis

Author : Tom Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315312476
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennial Metropolis written by Tom Hutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text offers a critical perspective on complex and consequential aspects of growth and change in London, viewed through the lens of multiscalar space and brought to life through exemplary case studies. It demonstrates how capital, culture and governance have combined to reproduce London, within a frame of relational geographies and historical relayering. Emphasis is placed on the sequences of political change, capital intensification, industrial restructuring and cultural infusions which have transformed space in London since the 1980s. Tom Hutton contributes to the rich discourse on London’s experiences of urbanization, by producing a fresh perspective on its development saliency. Millennial Metropolis includes a systematic review and synthesis of research literatures on globalizing cities, with reference to the reproduction of space at the metropolitan, district and neighbourhood scales. Hutton offers a nuanced treatment of geographical scale, observed in the blending of global/transnational processes with the fine-grained imprint of governance processes and social relations. These proccesses are manifested in sites of innovation, spectacle and social conviviality, but also produce experiences of displacement and inequality. The author presents a spatial model of metropolitan development by exploring how growth and change in twenty-first-century London is expressed internally as an enlarged zonal structure extending beyond the traditional territories of central and inner London. Serious threats to London are discussed —from the isolating implications of Brexit, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the dire threat of ecological crises and deteriorating public health associated with climate change. This will be an invaluable text for postgraduate students, established scholars and upper level undergraduates, across diverse disciplines and fields including geography, sociology, governance studies and planning and urban studies.

Author : Tom Hutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138232501
Total Pages : 99999 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennial Metropolis written by Tom Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 99999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text offers a critical perspective on complex and consequential aspects of growth and change in London, viewed through the lens of multiscalar space. It demonstrates how capital, culture and governance have combined to reproduce London, within a frame of relational geographies and historical relayering. Emphasis is placed on the sequences of governance change, capital relayering, industrial restructuring and cultural infusions which have transformed space in London since the 1980s. Hutton contributes to the rich discourse on London's experiences of urbanization, by producing a fresh perspective on its development saliency. It includes a major review and synthesis of research literatures on globalizing cities, with specific reference to the role of capital and culture to the reproduction of space at different scales. Hutton has a wider synthesis of literatures, and also benefits from a nuanced treatment of geographical scale -- in the blending of global/transnational processes with the fine-grained imprint of governance processes and social relations in the manifestations of contemporary urban inequality. The author presents a spatial model of metropolitan development by exploring how growth and change in twenty-first-century London is manifested internally as an enlarged zonal structure extending beyond the traditional territories of central and inner London. The serious threats to London are discussed - from the isolating implications of Brexit, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the dire threat of ecological crises and deteriorating public health associated with climate change. This will be an invaluable text for postgraduates, established scholars and upper level undergraduates, from any discipline or field with an interest in urban studies, including geography, planning, and urban studies.

Author : Tom Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315312484
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennial Metropolis written by Tom Hutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text offers a critical perspective on complex and consequential aspects of growth and change in London, viewed through the lens of multiscalar space and brought to life through exemplary case studies. It demonstrates how capital, culture and governance have combined to reproduce London, within a frame of relational geographies and historical relayering. Emphasis is placed on the sequences of political change, capital intensification, industrial restructuring and cultural infusions which have transformed space in London since the 1980s. Tom Hutton contributes to the rich discourse on London’s experiences of urbanization, by producing a fresh perspective on its development saliency. Millennial Metropolis includes a systematic review and synthesis of research literatures on globalizing cities, with reference to the reproduction of space at the metropolitan, district and neighbourhood scales. Hutton offers a nuanced treatment of geographical scale, observed in the blending of global/transnational processes with the fine-grained imprint of governance processes and social relations. These proccesses are manifested in sites of innovation, spectacle and social conviviality, but also produce experiences of displacement and inequality. The author presents a spatial model of metropolitan development by exploring how growth and change in twenty-first-century London is expressed internally as an enlarged zonal structure extending beyond the traditional territories of central and inner London. Serious threats to London are discussed —from the isolating implications of Brexit, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the dire threat of ecological crises and deteriorating public health associated with climate change. This will be an invaluable text for postgraduate students, established scholars and upper level undergraduates, across diverse disciplines and fields including geography, sociology, governance studies and planning and urban studies.

Author : Markus Moos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351805371
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Millennial City written by Markus Moos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millennials have captured our imaginaries in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that this generation of young adults lives in downtown neighbourhoods near cafes, public transit and other amenities. Yet, this depiction is rarely unpacked nor problematized. Despite some commonalities, the Millennial generation is highly diverse and many face housing affordability and labour market constraints. Regardless, as the largest generation following the post-World War II baby boom, Millennials will surely leave their mark on cities. This book assesses the impact of Millennials on cities. It asks how the Millennial generation differs from previous generations in terms of their labour market experiences, housing outcomes, transportation decisions, the opportunities available to them, and the constraints they face. It also explores the urban planning and public policy implications that arise from these generational shifts. This book offers a generational lens that faculty, students and other readers with interest in the fields of urban studies, planning, geography, economic development, demography, or sociology will find useful in interpreting contemporary U.S. and Canadian cities. It also provides guidance to planners and policymakers on how to think about Millennials in their work and make decisions that will allow all generations to thrive.

Author : H. T. Gibbons
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985298798
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Millennial Metropolis written by H. T. Gibbons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important characteristics of this age are the massive growth, urbanization and mobility of the world population, the decline of the middle class and the dramatic rise to power of the techno-managerial elite and the super-rich power elite. A critical urban mass began to be reached from the 1980s until today when not only current migration but population growth from earlier migration increased to the point where the linkage between major cities and the hinterland began to weaken. As the size of major cities increased so did the scale of their technology, management and financial structures. The disciplines related to these structures began to gravitate to and concentrate in major cities to the exclusion of other areas. This concentration altered the national economic structure by introducing total specialization in all key aspects of the economy so that secondary cities and rural areas no longer retained the economic, management and financial resources to retain their traditional role in the national hierarchy. When combined with rapid and unstoppable globalist restructuring, and massive redistribution to the power elite and techno-managerial elite of global and national wealth, a new environment emerged where an increasingly small number of major cities began to assert their newly created interests and power over all others through the techno-managerial elite. These are the power cities of the technology control era, coincidentally the Age of Trump. This book seeks to understand this new environment in detail and consider its impact on nearly all aspects of human life and interaction. In addition, it presents likely challenges and potential outcomes that may result from trends and developments already too far progressed to be re-oriented. This book principally addresses urbanization, political economy and technology, although it necessarily addresses other subjects, most particularly economic justice, and seeks primarily to explore the relationship of political economy with global urbanization, and the related options for social and physical organization. The power cities that have emerged are the homes of the power elite and their agents, the techno-managerial elite. These power cities dominate secondary cities and towns, the hinterlands, and now even seek to dominate cities in other countries. The power gap between and within the power cities and the rest is unsustainable and is creating social conflict which will have to be resolved. There are four possible future scenarios for management of global urbanization, particularly in the case of the United States. None of them are fully satisfactory to current political economy ideologies. All of them indicate reduced freedom for most people, but one of them is more attractive in its potential to reduce social conflict. It is the Millennial Metropolis Model (MMM). The MMM replaces the currently discussed alternative of universal basic income with a more fundamental universal basic services approach that requires a more comprehensive and activist urban and regional planning program. New technologies such as self-driving vehicles, and more efficient designs to expand shared and unified spaces will provide improved opportunities for place-making and community-building. Under the MMM scenario common services would be provided as municipal monopolies for all of a single class of citizens only in approved and viable urban settlements where they are efficient and affordable, while guaranteed municipal services to other urban areas are phased out. Increasing financial and lifestyle security would allow the reduction of private ownership of most items to provide greater efficiency in space utilization. Implementation of the MMM would be the start of a comprehensive effort to reduce the disparities between power cities and their techno-managerial elite and the rest in order to restore social harmony, public commons and pro-people development.

Author : Markus Moos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135180538X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Millennial City written by Markus Moos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millennials have captured our imaginaries in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that this generation of young adults lives in downtown neighbourhoods near cafes, public transit and other amenities. Yet, this depiction is rarely unpacked nor problematized. Despite some commonalities, the Millennial generation is highly diverse and many face housing affordability and labour market constraints. Regardless, as the largest generation following the post-World War II baby boom, Millennials will surely leave their mark on cities. This book assesses the impact of Millennials on cities. It asks how the Millennial generation differs from previous generations in terms of their labour market experiences, housing outcomes, transportation decisions, the opportunities available to them, and the constraints they face. It also explores the urban planning and public policy implications that arise from these generational shifts. This book offers a generational lens that faculty, students and other readers with interest in the fields of urban studies, planning, geography, economic development, demography, or sociology will find useful in interpreting contemporary U.S. and Canadian cities. It also provides guidance to planners and policymakers on how to think about Millennials in their work and make decisions that will allow all generations to thrive.

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metropolis written by Upton Sinclair and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1908-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After he had kicked himself loose it was to find himself in an arena where pain-maddened horses and frenzied men raced about amid a rain of minie-balls and canister. And in this inferno the gallant Major had captured a horse and rallied the remains of his shattered command and held the line until help came-

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 110597930X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metropolis written by Upton Sinclair and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upton Sinclair is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Dragon's Teeth." His best known work is "The Jungle," a novel about the abhorrent practices of the meat packing industry at the time.When Allan Montague arrives in New York, he is swept into the lifestyle of the fashionable. They know him through his father who was a General in the war. The longer he stays in New York, the more he realizes that there is a huge disparity between the classes. When an injustice befalls the poor, Allan is the first to fight for what is right. But as he continues his lawsuit, he begins to realize that the very people he's fighting with are the very people who rule New York. He must be wily and careful if he is to survive this pursuit of justice.

Author : David Ley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119853621
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing Booms in Gateway Cities written by David Ley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOUSING BOOMS IN GATEWAY CITIES “David Ley examines the development of housing booms, and policies intended to stimulate or limit them. Utilising a comparative approach in five gateway cities, he provides a superb understanding of the politics of booms, lifting the debate beyond narrow housing and real estate studies. This book is required reading for anyone interested in global cities, housing markets, or comparative urbanism.” —Manuel B. Aalbers, Professor of Human Geography, KU Leuven, Belgium “A stellar contribution to housing and its financialisation as central to the capitalist project globally, Housing Booms offers a wonderful window into the ascendancy of the secondary circuit of real estate in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Vancouver, and London. Critically, through careful, empirically rigorous comparison, an eminent urban social scientist urges us to understand the importance of placing urban housing theoretically.” —Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University “Mastering a wealth of information and insights from five gateway cities, David Ley provides fresh and inspiring explanation of both common global logics and diverse local trajectories of housing booms in the era of financialisation and asset-based accumulation. A timely and ground-breaking contribution, (re)positioning housing to the centrality pervasively felt in everyday life but largely unacknowledged in mainstream social science.” —George Lin, Chair Professor of Geography, University of Hong Kong In Housing Booms in Gateway Cities, renowned geographer Dr. David Ley delivers a detailed exploration of housing markets in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Vancouver, and London and explains why these gateway cities have seen dramatic increases in residential real estate prices since the 1980s. The author describes how the globalization of real estate has rapidly inflated demand and uncoupled local housing prices from local wages, causing acute problems of affordability, availability, and inequality. The book implicates government policy in massive real estate price inflation, describing a shift from welfare-based to asset-based societies. It also highlights the relatively unique experience in Singapore, where asset-based housing policy has encouraged the dispersion of ownership and accumulation through an increased supply of subsidized leasehold apartments and the regulation of disruptive investment flows. Housing Booms in Gateway Cities is an ideal resource for academics, students and policymakers with an interest in urban geography, sociology, and planning, housing studies, and any of the cities discussed in the book. It is an innovative treatment of housing as a central category in wealth accumulation in urban economies and societies.

Author : Nora Pleßke
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839426723
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intelligible Metropolis written by Nora Pleßke and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.