Underground: dreams and degradations in Bucharest
"O'Neill moves beneath Romania's capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life not just upward into higher skylines, and outward to ever more distant peripheries, but also downward beneath city sidewalks. He details how developers and m...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2024]
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| In: | Jahr: 2024 |
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| Bestand in Tübingen: | In Tübingen vorhanden. UB: KB 21 A 3874 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "O'Neill moves beneath Romania's capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life not just upward into higher skylines, and outward to ever more distant peripheries, but also downward beneath city sidewalks. He details how developers and municipal officials have invested tremendous sums of money to gentrify and expand Bucharest's constellation of subterranean Metro stations and pedestrian pathways, basements and cellars, bunkers and crypts to provide upwardly mobile residents with space to live, work, and play in an overcrowded and increasingly unaffordable city center. These loosely coordinated efforts have not only introduced novel forms of social fragmentation but also a new aesthetics of inequality that are fundamentally shaping where and how the middle clases fit in the city."--Back cover |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physische Details: | xii, 254 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5128-2582-4 978-1-5128-2583-1 |
