Life Space and Economic Space
Third World Planning in Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-0-7658-0942-1 (ISBN)
Description
Friedmann perceives a global crisis which he traces to the dissolution of territorial relations. This he believes results from penetration of the global system of markets into the remotest corners of the world, undermining tradition cultures and ways of life. The consequence is incipient breakdown, he asserts, and we need to repoliticize space and subordinate the power of capital to the collective will of people organized to work toward common ends. This deliberately provocative collection of essays includes an autobiographical fragment providing contextual information about the author.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Somerset
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7658-0942-1 (9780765809421)
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Person
John Friedmann is professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He spent more than a dozen years as a policy adviser in Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Korea, and Japan. Among his best known books are Regional Development Policy and Planning in the Public Domain.
Content
Part I Urbanization in the Global Economy 1. On the Contradictions Between City and Countryside 2. The Crisis of Transition: A Critique of Strategies of Crisis Management 3. World City Formation 4. Life Space and Economic Space: Contradictions in Regional Development 5. The Barrio Economy and Collective Self-Empowerment in Latin America Part II Spatial Aspects of National Planning 6. The Spatial Organization of Power in the Development of Urban Systems 7. Urban Bias in Regional Development 8. The Active Community: Toward a Political-Territorial Framework for Rural Development in Asia 9. Political and Technical Moments in Planning: Agropolitan Development Revisited 10. Planning in Latin America: From Technocratic Illusion to Open Democracy Part III Epilogue 11. The Crisis of Belief