Beyond Plague Urbanism
Jun 2023 · NYU Press
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Our cities have been plagued by economic injustices and inequalities long before COVID-19 upended urban life everywhere. Beyond Plague Urbanism delves into this zone of urban pathology and asks what successive lockdowns and exoduses, remote work and small-business collapse, redundant office space and unaffordable living space portend for our society in cities? Andy Merrifield journeys intercontinentally as he reflects on these questions, in a narrative that moves imaginatively between plague and populist politics, the U.S. Main Street and the British High Street, overcrowding and undercrowding, the right to the city today and eco-cities of tomorrow. Blending jazz with French Surrealism, Thomas Pynchon’s rocket science with the odyssey of James Joyce, Henri Lefebvre’s Marxism with the street ballets of Jane Jacobs, this challenging book appears at a timely moment in our fraught political history and opens up an urgent humanist conversation about the future of city life.
Our cities have been plagued by economic injustices and inequalities long before COVID-19 upended urban life everywhere. Beyond Plague Urbanism delves into this zone of urban pathology and asks what successive lockdowns and exoduses, remote work and small-business collapse, redundant office space...
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Andy Merrifield (Author)
Andy Merrifield is a writer and independent scholar, author of numerous books, including The Wisdom of Donkeys, Magical Marxism, The Amateur, Marx, Dead and Alive, and Beyond Plague Urbanism.
Andy Merrifield is a writer and independent scholar, author of numerous books, including The Wisdom of Donkeys, Magical Marxism, The Amateur, Marx, Dead and Alive, and Beyond Plague Urbanism.
Andy Merrifield (Author)
Andy Merrifield is a writer and independent scholar, author of numerous books, including The Wisdom of Donkeys, Magical Marxism, The Amateur, Marx, Dead and Alive, and Beyond Plague Urbanism.
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