Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires

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Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies-establishing creative districts dedicated to t

Jacob Lederman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan-Flint.

"Jacob Lederman shows how politicians' ambitions to make Buenos Aires a 'world-class' city appeal to global audiences while inflaming local tensions and reinforcing inequality. This nuanced study of a 'creative' city in the global South is a provocative, elegantly written contribution to comparative urban studies."-Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City and The Innovation Complex "This clearly written and persuasively argued book will be of invaluable use to urban sociologists and geographers interested in understanding in more detail and depth the varied ideological debates and pragmatic ramifications of urban policy making, city planning, and class relations in the Global South."-American Journal of Sociology "Chasing World-Class Urbanism is a book that ties conceptual innovation with empirical richness, and aims to put in conversation theories from different toolkits. "-Sociological Forum "A significant contribution to our provisional and still incomplete understanding of architecture's relation to capitalism. "-Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians "[Chasing World-Class Urbanism] stands out in its nuanced analysis of the dynamics of global and local cultural politics."-City & Community