Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Suburbs
Matt Hern, "Outside the Outside: The New Politics of Suburbs"
English | ISBN: 1788738179 | 2024 | 192 pages | EPUB | 772 KB
English | ISBN: 1788738179 | 2024 | 192 pages | EPUB | 772 KB
"Matt Hern's brilliant and captivating Outside the Outside presents an urgently needed, theoretically sophisticated street-level perspective on some of the most pertinent ongoing critical debates about life and politics in our decentered suburban world."
—Roger Keil, author of Suburban Planet
Modern "sub-urbs" as a place of vibrancy, conflict and resistance
Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the city itself. Today, most of the Western world lives on the city outskirts. Yet these neighborhoods that once offered security and respite from the perceived dangers of the city center have been radically transformed in the last few decades to poor, working-class and racialized communities.
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