This textbook challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.
Cities are places of mixing and meeting - places where different worlds encounter one another on the streets. Yet cities are all too often seen as unruly places in need of government and control.
"Unruly Cities?" asks questions about the ways in which cities mix different worlds. Taking a fresh approach to issues of order and disorder and extending our spatial understanding of cities, this book develops new insights into city life, using a wide variety of examples drawn from around the world.
`Readable - accessible to undergraduates and certainly interesting to postgraduates...good range of questions and is up-to-date and relavant to current concerns.' - -
Malcolm Miles, Oxford Brookes University, UK`Very good on current social theory, good case studies...excellent photographs and global coverage.' - -
Dr David Sibley, Hull University, UK`...this text provides an illuminating and intelligent understanding of where, how and why such cities persisit.It's use of seminal works and critical analysis is simply inspiring.' - -
Dr M Gillen, Northumbria University"An excellent insight into the city - economically, socially, politically and culturally. Essential undergraduate reading" Heidi Grainger, Liverpool University
