Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives

by Klaus Frantz, Georg Glasze, Chris Webster

For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life.

Contributed to, and edited by, an international team of leading authors, this revealing book constructs an interdisciplinary discourse on the global spread of private communities based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415511402
• ISBN13: 9780415511407
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"