{"product_id":"9781538118269-the-city-as-power-urban-space-place-and-national-identity","title":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield - The City As Power Urban Space Place And National Identity - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: This interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating maintaining and contesting identity and belonging. Rather than serving as passive backdrops urban spaces and places are active mediums for defining categories of inclusion and exclusion. With an international scope and ready appeal to visual learners the book offers a compelling survey of historical and contemporary efforts to enact state ideals express counter - narratives and negotiate global trends in cities. The contributors show how successive regimes reshape cityscapes to mirror their respective socio - political agendas perspectives on history and assumptions of power. Yet they must do so within the legal ethnic religious social economic and cultural geographies inherited from previous regimes. Exploring the rich diversity of urban space place and national identity the book compares core elements of identity projects in a range of political cultural and socioeconomic settings. By focusing on the built form and urban settings for social movements protest and even organized violence this timely book demonstrates that cities are not simply lived in but also lived through.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The City As Power Urban Space Place And National Identity\u003cbr\u003e\nBrand: Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781538118269\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 328 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 9\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Human Geography","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49620418855217,"sku":"IN-G-9781538118269","price":55.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781538118269.jpg?v=1724692774","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781538118269-the-city-as-power-urban-space-place-and-national-identity","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}