[ePub] A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense by Jim McDevitt; Eric San Juan at Arts-Photography

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The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring; regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice; destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization; and to promote alternative; radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism. The contributors provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary urban restructuring; including the issues of neoliberalization; gentrification; colonization; "creative" cities; architecture and political power; sub-prime mortgage foreclosures and the ongoing struggles of "right to the city" movements. At the same time; the book explores the diverse interpretive frameworks ndash; critical and otherwise ndash; that are currently being used in academic discourse; in political struggles; and in everyday life to decipher contemporary urban transformations and contestations. The slogan; "cities for people; not for profit;" sets into stark relief what the contributors view as a central political question involved in efforts; at once theoretical and practical; to address the global urban crises of our time. Drawing upon European and North American scholarship in sociology; politics; geography; urban planning and urban design; the book provides useful insights and perspectives for citizens; activists and intellectuals interested in exploring alternatives to contemporary forms of capitalist urbanization.