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Cities of Power

The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global

Göran Therborn

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English
Verso Books
05 January 2022
In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goran Therborn offers a tour of the world’s major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them. Through a global, historical lens, and with a thematic range extending from the mutations of modernist architecture to the contemporary return of urban revolutions, Therborn questions received assumptions about the source, manifestations and reach of urban power, combining perspectives on politics, sociology, urban planning, architecture, and urban iconography. With its unique systematic overview, from Washington DC and revolutionary Paris to the flamboyant twenty-first century capital of Kazakhstan, its wealth of urban observations from all the populated continents, and its sharp and multi-faceted analyses, Cities of Power forces us to rethink our urban future, as well as our historically shaped present.

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Imprint:   Verso Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 27mm
Weight:   350g
ISBN:   9781784785451
ISBN 10:   1784785458
Pages:   416
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Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Goran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages and include Inequalities of the World and Between Sex and Power.

Reviews for Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global

Göran Therborn analyses urban life with sweeping historical and global range. As he shows in tremendous detail, urban history is baked into a place by its streets, its institutions and the cultural outlook of its inhabitants -- Max Holleran * Times Literary Supplement * Should become an early port of call for anyone looking to know more about how urban and national power functions around the world * Irish Times * One of the world's most engaging and intriguing sociologists. Cities of Power helps us understand the current tensions between states and people, capitals and peripheries, populism and elitism, nationalism and globalism -- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of <i>Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States</i> Cities of Power is explicitly a riposte to the idea of the Global City, and the peculiar Monocle-magazine vision of trans-national, interconnected, intangible capitalism that it serves to alternately describe and vindicate. Few thinkers display such a genuinely global range -- Owen Hatherley * New Left Review * One more publication in a sparkling list of career accomplishments, Cities of Power might function as an important resource for many a sociology doctoral student -- Luzia Lodder * PopMatters *


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