Urban Change and the European Left

Urban Change and the European Left
Author: Donald McNeill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2005-08-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134697945

This book helps make sense of the shape of contemporary urban change and describes the way in which cities are central to the construction of place-based political identities.

Urban Change and the European Left

Urban Change and the European Left
Author: Donald McNeill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2005-08-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134697937

Urban Change and the European Left looks at the way politicians and critics use the city to ground their political messages. The book explores local narratives of urban change through ethnography, biography, travelogue, and social history. Drawing on novels, architectural commentaries, urban plans, political speeches, history and autobiography, Urban Change and the European Left provides accounts of public art, architecture, grassroots struggles, battles for control of the 1992 Olympics, and the city and Catalan identity.

Social Change and Urban Restructuring in Central Europe

Social Change and Urban Restructuring in Central Europe
Author: György Enyedi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Geographers and regional scholars contribute both thematic essays about the region generally or case studies. Their topics include local government in post-socialist cities; class, ethnicity, and urban restructuring in post-communist Hungary; commercial property development in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw, new models of the housing system, aesthetic aspects of change in urban space in Prague and Budapest during the transition; and border regions and trans-border cooperation, the case of Poland. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Post-Socialist City

The Post-Socialist City
Author: Kiril Stanilov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2007-08-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781402060526

This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. It links the restructuring of the built environment with the underlying processes and the forces of socio-economic reforms. The detailed accounts of the spatial transformations in a key moment of urban history in the region enhance our understanding of the linkages between society and space.

The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980

The Political Mobilization of the European Left, 1860-1980
Author: Stefano Bartolini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2000-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521650216

In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. While examining the social contexts, organizational structures, and political developments of thirteen socialist experiences from the 1860s to the 1980s, he reconstructs the steps through which social conflict was translated and structured into an opposition, as well as how it developed its different organizational and ideological forms, and how it managed more or less successfully to mobilize its reference groups politically.

The Left Case for Brexit

The Left Case for Brexit
Author: Richard Tuck
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1509542299

Liberal left orthodoxy holds that Brexit is a disastrous coup, orchestrated by the hard right and fuelled by xenophobia, which will break up the Union and turn what’s left of Britain into a neoliberal dystopia. Richard Tuck’s ongoing commentary on the Brexit crisis demolishes this narrative. He argues that by opposing Brexit and throwing its lot in with a liberal constitutional order tailor-made for the interests of global capitalists, the Left has made a major error. It has tied itself into a framework designed to frustrate its own radical policies. Brexit therefore actually represents a golden opportunity for socialists to implement the kind of economic agenda they have long since advocated. Sadly, however, many of them have lost faith in the kind of popular revolution that the majoritarian British constitution is peculiarly well-placed to deliver and have succumbed instead to defeatism and the cultural politics of virtue-signalling. Another approach is, however, still possible. Combining brilliant contemporary political insights with a profound grasp of the ironies of modern history, this book is essential for anyone who wants a clear-sighted assessment of the momentous underlying issues brought to the surface by Brexit.

The story of your city

The story of your city
Author: Greg Clark
Publisher: European Investment Bank
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2018-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9286138784

By the end of this century, 9 out of 10 Europeans will live in an urban area. But what kind of city will they call home? You'll find all the answers in CITY, TRANSFORMED, the new essay series from the European Investment Bank. This panoramic first essay in the series lays out a great sweeping history of European cities over the last fifty years—and showcases new directions being taken by some of our most innovative cities. Urban experts Greg Clark, Tim Moonen, and Jake Nunley based at University College London take a definitive look at how Europe's cities transformed from post-industrial decline to thriving metropolises that are as prosperous and liveable as anywhere on Earth.

The Left Case Against the EU

The Left Case Against the EU
Author: Costas Lapavitsas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1509531084

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. He contends that the EU’s response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas’s powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe.

The Post-Socialist City

The Post-Socialist City
Author: Kiril Stanilov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-08-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781402060526

This book focuses on the spatial transformations in the most dynamically evolving urban areas of post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. It links the restructuring of the built environment with the underlying processes and the forces of socio-economic reforms. The detailed accounts of the spatial transformations in a key moment of urban history in the region enhance our understanding of the linkages between society and space.