Conflict in the Changing City

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

Planning in Divided Cities: Collaborative Shaping of Contested Space ; 13-21

2011-03-11

9 pages

9781405192187 , 9781444393200

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444393200.ch2

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

cities, in sovereignty conflicts ‐ socio‐spatial fragmentations of pluralist quarrels , pattern of low density urban expansion ‐ becoming evident in Europe , ‘global’ impact, development of mongrel cities ‐ diversity of ethnic populations and migration patterns , new cityspace, dispersal and agglomeration ‐ the post‐metropolis, as “the city turned inside‐out” , distribution of economic activity ‐ going global, competing on global terrain , urbanity, changing markedly ‐ shifts in economy, polity, diversity and demography , conceptual confusion of contemporary city ‐ neologisms as the multi‐nucleated metropolitan region , conflict in changing city , development patchy ‐ scattered and strung out with discontinuity , concept of urban realm ‐ complex, no longer defining it outside the rural