| Description |
xvi, 336 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-317) and index. |
| Contents |
Dreamland / Timothy Mitchell -- Arg-e Jadid : a California oasis in the Iranian Desert / Marina Forti -- Sand, fear, and money in Dubai / Mike Davis -- Capital of chaos : the new Kabul of warlords and infidels / Anthony Fontenot and Ajmal Maiwandi -- Delirious Beijing : euphoria and despair in the olympic metropolis / Anne-Marie Broudehoux -- "Palm Springs" : imagineering California in Hong Kong / Laura Ruggeri -- Johannesburg : of gold and gangsters / Patrick Bond -- "Nueva Managua" : the disembedded city / Dennis Rodgers -- Becoming bourgeois : (postsocialist) utopias of isolation and civilization / Judit Bodnar -- "Extreme makeover" : Medellin in the new millennium / Forrest Hylton -- Most unjust country in the world / Emir Sader -- Bunkering in paradise (or, do oldsters dream of electric golf carts?) / Marco d'Eramo -- Careless people : it's the real housewives of Orange County's world; the rest of us just live in it / Rebecca Schoenkopf -- "Hell is other people" : Ted Turner's two million acres / Jon Wiener -- People like hicks : the Supreme Court announces the antiurban city / Don Mitchell -- Hubrispace : personal museums and the architectures of self-deification / Joe Day -- Monastery chic : the ascetic retreat in a neoliberal age / Sara Lipton -- Floating utopias : freedom and unfreedom of the seas / China Mieville -- Hives and swarms : on the "nature" of neoliberalism and the rise of the ecological insurgent / Daniel Bertrand Monk. |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- History.
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Neoliberalism -- History.
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Social problems -- History.
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Economic history -- 1990-
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Social history -- 1970-
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| Added Author |
Davis, Mike, 1946-
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Monk, Daniel Bertrand, 1960-
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| ISBN |
159558076X |
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9781595580764 |
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