Unruly Cities?: Order/disorder

Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile, Chris Brook

Psychology Press, 1999 - Cities and towns - 387 pages

The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.

Contents

• living with difference: 8
• to sweet suburbia: 28
• Conclusion: 38
• Reading: 49
• Urban disorders: 53
• surveillance regulation: 103
• power and segregation in cities: 149
• City politics: 203
• Introduction: 248
• The unsustainable city?: 249
• Sustainable development and the city: 265
• Unsustainable cities: 276
• Planning the sustainable city: 287
• what is the sustainable city?: 295
• Administered cities: 299
• On orderings and the city: 345
• Acknowledgements: 369

About the author

Steve Pile is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His publications include The Body and the City (1996) and Geographies of Resistance (1997), co-edited with Michael Keith) and Places through the Body (1998, co-edited with Heidi J. Nast). Chris Brook is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. His recent books include A Global World? 91995, co-edited with James Anderson and Allan Cochrane) and Asia Pacific in the New World Order (1997, co-edited with Anthony McGrew).
Gerry Mooney is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy in the Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Paisley. He has published widely on issues relating to developments in Social Policy and in the field of urban studies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Unruly Cities?: Order/disorder; Understanding cities, ISSN 1754-9752
• Editors: Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile, Chris Brook
• Contributor: Open University
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0415200733, 9780415200738
• Length: 387 pages