| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge focus on urban studies |
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Routledge focus on urban studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; About the author; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Research design; The virtual object as a hypothesis; Outline of the book; 2 Discussing urban design and neoliberalism in Santiago; Introduction; Urban designer's ethos; Spatial dimensions of neoliberalism; Santiago de Chile and neoliberal urban development; Concluding remarks; 3 Spatial dialectics of Santiago's urban land; Introduction; The conventillo and the social question: the city as a political arena of spatial contestations |
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Scientific urbanism and the masses: private property at stake and the neoliberal revolution of the outraged oligarchyFrom the welfare state to the neoliberal revolution; Concluding remarks; 4 Neoliberal transformation of urban space in Santiago; Introduction; Free-market political economy in Santiago; Featuring urban design under neoliberalism; Social housing under neoliberalism; Neoliberal real estate and the financial realm; Costanera Centre: the icon of the neoliberal city; Contestations against urban design under neoliberalism; Concluding remarks |
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5 The practice of urban design in a neoliberal SantiagoIntroduction; The rule of profit in city making; State, neoliberalism, and urban design; Profit-oriented urban design; Challenging urban design practice in Santiago; Concluding remarks; 6 Towards a theory of urban design under neoliberalism design; Introduction; A definition: urban design under neoliberalism; The ethical conflict of urban designers under neoliberalism; Assessing urban design under neoliberalism; A virtual object for further research: the solidary urban design practice; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book discusses the status of urban design as a disciplinary field and as a practice under the current and pervasive neoliberal regime. The main argument is that urban design has been wholly reshaped by neoliberalism. In this transformation, it has become a discipline that has neglected its original ethos - designing good cities - aligning its theory and practice with the sole profit-oriented objectives typical of advanced capitalist societies. The book draws on Marxism-inspired scholarsfor a conceptual analysis of how neoliberalism influenced the emergence of urbanism and urban design. It looks specifically athow, inurbanism's everyday dimensions, it is possible to find examples ofresistance and emancipation. Based on empirical evidence, archival resources, and immersion in the socio-spatial reality of Santiago de Chile, the book illustrates the way neoliberalism compromises urban designers' ethics andpractices, and therefore how its theories become instrumental to the neoliberal transformation of urban society represented in contemporary urbanisms. It will be a valuable resource for academics and students in the fields of architecture, urban studies, sociology and geography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Francisco Vergara Perucich is an urbanist at Universidad Central de Chile and Doctor in Development and Planning at University College London. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the Universidad de Las Amâericas, Chile, where he conducts research on neoliberal urbanisms and informal settlements in Latin America |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 6, 2019) |
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City planning -- Chile -- Santiago
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Cities and towns -- Growth -- History
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Sociology, Urban -- Chile -- Santiago
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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Cities and towns -- Growth
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City planning
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Sociology, Urban
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Chile -- Santiago
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429511844 |
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0429511841 |
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9780429203268 |
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0429203268 |
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9780429515279 |
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0429515278 |
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9780429518706 |
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0429518706 |
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