4. The Divided City
Published Online: 10 FEB 2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781444393200.ch4
Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Planning in Divided Cities: Collaborative Shaping of Contested Space
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How to Cite
Gaffikin, F. and Morrissey, M. (2011) The Divided City, in Planning in Divided Cities: Collaborative Shaping of Contested Space, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444393200.ch4
Publication History
- Published Online: 10 FEB 2011
- Published Print: 11 MAR 2011
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405192187
Online ISBN: 9781444393200
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- the divided city, interpretative framework - key discourses on current urban conditions;
- Chicago and Los Angeles, as seminal referents - debates about ‘the city’;
- Chicago optic, civic ingenuity and dexterity - latent influences over resistible global forces;
- Los Angeles experience, and uneven development - with differentiated citizenship;
- eight main frameworks for urban conflict - dispute attributed to combinations of these;
- inequality, concerning differentials - in income, status and power;
- Marcuse, concept of a ‘dual city’ - mistakenly a land-use hierarchy, embodying complex convergence of social, occupational and spatial disparities;
- paradox of penury amid plenty - primary source of urban conflict changing little;
- ethnicity and urban conflict - ‘Babel syndrome’ of world's tribal separatism inscribing constant human narrative;
- ethno-nationalist contest, and nationalism - images, symbols and myths of ethnic identity
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Explanations of Division
Ethnicity and Urban Conflict
Ethno-Nationalist Contest
The State of Conflict and Conflict in the State