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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: A Global Dialogue on the Pandemic -- COVID-19 Governance, Politics and the Ambivalence of States -- COVID-19 Governance: State Expansion, Capitalist Resilience and Democracy -- Three Political Regimes, Three Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis -- Universal Social Protection Floors: A Joint Responsibility -- Labour Activism and State Repression in Indonesia -- Harmoniously Denied: China's Censorship on COVID-19 -- State Repression in the Philippines during COVID-19 and Beyond -- Normality Was the Problem -- Crisis, Inequalities and Solidarities -- Divided We Stand: What the Pandemic Tells Us about the Contemporary US -- The Data Gaps of the Pandemic: Data Poverty and Forms of Invisibility -- Necropolitics and Biopower in the Pandemic: Death, Social Control or Well-being -- COVID-19 in the Urban Peripheries: Perspectives from the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro -- Generational Inequalities in Argentina's Working-Class Neighbourhoods -- Pandemic Pedagogical Lessons and Educational Inequalities -- Social Work with Homeless People in Belgium -- Community Spaces in India: Constructing Solidarity during the Pandemic -- Social Movements, Mutual Aid and Self-Reliance during COVID-19 -- Social Movements in the Emergence of a Global Pandemic -- COVID-19 and the Reconfiguration of the Social Movements Landscape -- Social Movements as Essential Services in Toronto -- Creating a Hyperlocal Infrastructure of Care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in the UK -- 'Solidarity, Not Charity': Emotions as Cultural Challenge for Grassroots Activism -- Self-Reliance as an Answer to the Pandemic: Hopes from India's Margins -- Social Movements and Self-Reliance: Community Mobilization in South Africa -- Resilience, Reworking and Resistance in New York City -- 'The COVID Will Not Kill the Revolution': Protest Movements in the Pandemic -- 'Defund the Police': Strategy and Struggle for Racial Justice in the US -- A Matter of Survival: The Lebanese Uprising in Times of Pandemic -- Hong Kong: From Democratic Protests to Medical Workers' Strikes in a Pandemic -- Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: A Return to Authoritarianism after the Revolutions? …”

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“…The author is well known as an astute and penetrating observer of a dazzling array of subjects, not least through his many contributions to the New York Review of Books. This collection of his essays from the last decade reveals his knack for ferreting out exceptional insights into a troubled world, often on the basis of firsthand experience. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 Cities of Imagination: Alternative Visions Of The Good City, 1880-1987 -- The Anarchist Roots of the Planning Movement -- A Warning: Some Boulders in the Trail -- A Guide through the Maze -- 2 The City of Dreadful Night -- The Bitter Cry -- The British Royal Commission of 1885 -- Depression, Violence, and the Threat of Insurrection -- The Booth Survey: The Problem Quantified -- The Slum City in Europe -- New York: The Tumor in the Tenements -- An International Problem -- 3 The City of By-Pass Variegated -- The London County Council Starts to Build -- The First Town-Planning Schemes -- New York Discovers Zoning -- London: The Tube Brings Suburban Sprawl -- The Legacy of Tudor Walters -- The Building of Suburbia -- The Architects' Revenge -- 4 The City in the Garden -- The Sources of Howard's Ideas -- The Garden City and the Social City -- Letchworth and Hampstead: Unwin and Parker -- The Garden-City Movement between the Wars -- The Garden City in Europe -- Garden Cities in Far Places -- Garden Cities for America -- New Towns for Britain: The State Takes Over -- 5 The City in the Region -- Geddes and the Anarchist Tradition -- The Regional Planning Association of America -- The RPAA versus the Regional Plan of New York -- New Deal Planning -- The TVA -- The Vision Realized: London -- 6 The City of Monuments -- Burnham and the City Beautiful Movement in America -- The City Beautiful in the British Raj -- Canberra: City Beautiful Exceptional -- The City Beautiful and the Great Dictators -- 7 The City of Towers -- The Corbusian Ideal City -- The Planning of Chandigarh -- Brasília: The Quasi-Corbusian City…”

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