'Race', Culture and the Right to the City Centres, Peripheries, Margins [Hardcover]

Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and?considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as examples.Acknowledgements? Introduction: The Signs in the Street PART I: I CAN FEEL THE CITY BREATHING Breathe In: The Public City? Breathe Out: The Naked City? Agonopolis: The Multicultural City PART II: EMPTY PROSPERITY Cosmopolis: Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City? Bedsit-land: Southend-on-Sea and London? State-Space: La Courneuve and Paris? The Outer-Inner City: 'Race', Conviviality and the Centre-Periphery? Epilogue References Index

'Gareth Millington brings a desperately needed international perspective to American concepts of 'race' in urban sociology. Comparing New York, London, and Paris, he argues that the inner city has been replaced by the 'outer-inner city.' Still a zone of racial stigma and economic exploitation, the outer-inner city replaces industrial jobs with a casual workforce, the fl?neur with the migrant, black/white dichotomies with intense immigrant diversity, racial tension with anti-immigrant xenophobia. The edge of the twenty-first century city presents its residents with pernicious new problems. 'Race' identifies those problems and the possibility of building a more just city from the periphery inward.'

- Gregory Smithsimon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA and author of September 12: Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero

'A valuable and inviting geohistorical exploration of our new urban landscapes of exclusion and diversity. Millington is an insightful and original guide to the sociological past and present of the ''multicultural'' city.'

- Alastair Bonnett, Professor of Social Geography, Newcastle University, UK

'This is a very engaginglÓ"