[Urbanstudy] Critical Planning Vol. 16 (Urban Restructuring: Process and Action) Out Now!

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Critical Planning
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Critical Planning Volume 16, 2009*
*Urban Restructuring: Process and Action
*www.criticalplanning.org*

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"Urban restructuring is an integral part of the crisis-induced
reorganization of capital and labor."
 -Soja, Morales, and Wolff, “Urban Restructuring: An Analysis of Social and
Spatial Change in Los Angeles” (1983)


*Critical Planning's *newest volume explores the ways in which
crisis-induced struggles between capital and labor play out on the ground in
different places around the world—amidst specific configurations of
political-economic relations, socio-spatial dynamics, and collective
imaginations. While the impetus for this volume grew out of our experiences
in *Critical Planning’s* home base of Los Angeles—facing the combined
fallout of the American subprime mortgage collapse and global financial
crisis last autumn—the authors of volume 16’s articles each interpreted our
call for papers distinctly according to their specific research topic,
methodology, and locale. The result is a truly global volume, with articles
that extend, critique, and reconstruct the concept of urban restructuring
from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and in a range of
empirical and historical contexts.

John Friedmann (honorary professor, University of British Columbia and
emeritus professor, UCLA) writes: "The only planning journal in America with
a critical edge, this professionally student-edited annual publication
continues the forty-year-old tradition of critical thinking and community
action of the UCLA Urban Planning Program. Volume 16, a cosmopolitan issue
that ranges from Kabul to Contra Costa County via Shanghai, Dhaka, and
Toronto, is built around the dual themes of the spatial restructuring of
cities and the re-scaling of local governance. It is an issue not to be
missed."

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*Table of Contents:*
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**Editorial Note: Crisis, “Recovery,” and Beyond *
Elise Youn
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Outside Endopolis: Notes from Contra Costa County *
Alex Schafran (2009 Edward W. Soja Prize Recipient)
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**Urban Restructuring and the Crisis: A Symposium with Neil Brenner, John
Friedmann, Margit Mayer, Allen J. Scott, and Edward W. Soja *
Konstantina Soureli and Elise Youn

*Restructuring, Rescaling, and the Urban Question*
Neil Brenner

*Postwar Political Restructuring in Freetown and Kabul: Theoretical Limits
and the Test Case for** Multiscalar Governance*
Daniel E. Esser

*Negotiating Livelihoods in a City of Difference: Narratives of
Gentrification in Shanghai*
Deljana Iossifova

*From Fabrics to Fine Arts: Urban Restructuring and the Formation of an Art
District in Shanghai*
Sheng Zhong
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**Gentrification and the Loss of Employment Lands: Toronto’s Studio District
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Ute Lehrer and Thorben Wieditz
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**The Renaissance of Inner-City Rail Station Areas: A Key Element in
Contemporary Urban Restructuring** Dynamics*
Deike Peters

*A Call for Organizing: The Rise of the Garment and Mobile Phone Industries
in Bangladesh*
Shomon Shamsuddin

*Book Review: CPULs: Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes*
Jennifer Goldstein
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**Book Review: Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public
Action in the Global South*
David R. Mason *

**A Call for Critical Race Studies in Urban Planning*
Maureen Purtill

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