Cities - Unauthorized Resistances and Uncertain Sovereignty in the Urban World (Hardcover)

In "Cities," Raymond Joshua Scannell examines how dramatic changes in the global economy and technology during the latter half of the twentieth century have radically restructured the city as a lived and living environment. Beginning with the impacts of globalization on national and regional economies across the planet, Scannell investigates the rapidly changing and amorphous urban environments in which most people live. Beyond the standard questions of positive development and good governance, "Cities" traces how the actions of urban dwellers carving out lives for themselves are radically transforming paradigms of urban management and observation and are overturning long-held assumptions about such basic questions as what constitutes rule and revolt. Rather than lay out a set of prescriptions for how to order a seemingly chaotic urban world, this exciting book insists on a new vocabulary for reckoning human settlements, one that looks centrally at the sort of behavior that is often relegated figuratively and literally to the urban margins. " Features of this innovative text include: "