Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world's population, and they are where the middle class is rapidly expanding. Indeed, by the year 2050, two-thirds of...

Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world's population, and they are where the middle class is rapidly expanding. Indeed, by the year 2050, two-thirds of...

Unter Rückgriff auf die Gouvernementalitätstheorie von Foucault sowie die Hegemonietheorie von Laclau und Mouffe analysiert dieses Buch die derzeit ablaufenden, oft als »neoliberal« bezeichneten Umbrüche in der Stadtentwicklung. Als empirischer Gegenstand dient das Stadtmarketing, anhand...