Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder

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Chris Brook, Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile
Routledge, 2006 - History - 396 pages
The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.
 

Contents

CHAPTER 2 Urban disorders
49
surveillance regulation and segregation
96
power and segregation in cities
137
CHAPTER 5 City politics
183
CHAPTER 6 The unsustainable city?
222
CHAPTER 7 Administered cities
268
CHAPTER 8 On orderings and the city
310
Acknowledgements
329
Index
334
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