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The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
- Author(s):
- Dora Apel (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Cultural Studies, History of Art, Political Philosophy & Theory, Public Humanities
- Subject(s):
- Water, Cities and towns, Capitalism, Cities and towns--Study and teaching, City planning
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Water policy, Water resource, capitalism, urbanization, Cities, Capitalist culture, Urbanism, Urbanism/urban planning
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ksth-je37
- Abstract:
- One of the most pressing challenges in the world today is access to clean water. This chapter explores the crises of contaminated water in Flint, water shutoffs in Detroit, and larger questions about the control of water by private corporations and the changing nature of urbanization. As neoliberal policies seek to privatize infrastructure and essential resources, the resulting crises illustrate the disastrous results of decisions driven by profit rather than the public good and demonstrate the need for a rethinking of the urban imaginary to produce a radically democratic, anticapitalist form of global urbanization.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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