Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World [Hardcover]

Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalisms onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism, social exclusion, homelessness -- as city inhabitants feel the brunt of privatization, state re-organization, and punishing social policy. This book examines the relationship between persistent neoliberalism and the production and contestation of inequalities in cities across the world. Case studies of current city realities reveal a richly place-specific and generalizable neoliberal condition that further deepens the economic, social, and political relations that give rise to diverse inequalities. Diverse cases also show how people struggle against a neoliberal ethos and hence the open-endedness of futures in these cities.

Introduction The Editors Part I. Urban Inequalities Across the World  1. Social Sustainability and Urban Inequality: Detroit and the Ravages of Neoliberalism  David Fasenfest  2. New Inequalities in Americas Rust Belt  David Wilson and Faranak Miraftab  3. From Free-Market Slums to Public Housing and Back Again: The Politics of Relocating Atlantas Poor  Katherine Hankins, Mechelle Puckett, Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel  4. Socio-Spatial Inequality and Violence in Cities of the Global South: Evidence from Latin America  Diane E. Davis  5.  City-Doubles: Re-Urbanism in Africa  Martin J. Murray  6. New Forms of Housing and Urban Inequalities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe  Vir?g Moln?r  7. Small Cities, Big Issues: Indian Cities in the Debates on Urban Poverty and IlSC