The Divided City

Gaffikin, Frank (author) / Morrissey, Mike (author)

Planning in Divided Cities: Collaborative Shaping of Contested Space ; 53-84

2011-03-11

32 pages

9781405192187 , 9781444393200

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444393200.ch4

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Los Angeles experience, and uneven development ‐ with differentiated citizenship , the divided city, interpretative framework ‐ key discourses on current urban conditions , inequality, concerning differentials ‐ in income, status and power , 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 , eight main frameworks for urban conflict ‐ dispute attributed to combinations of these , Marcuse, concept of a ‘dual city’ ‐ mistakenly a land‐use hierarchy, embodying complex convergence of social, occupational and spatial disparities , Chicago optic, civic ingenuity and dexterity ‐ latent influences over resistible global forces , Chicago and Los Angeles, as seminal referents ‐ debates about ‘the city’ , paradox of penury amid plenty ‐ primary source of urban conflict changing little