Urbanism without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood

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A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification. The book

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"From a long-term immersion on an (extra)ordinary block on the Westside of NYC, Christian M. Anderson demonstrates how the blunt powers of urban restructuring are intricately nestled in the jostling of everyday compositions of things through which collectives are madecollectives stitched and woven by the everyday efforts to keep social violence at bay, which can both support and undermine new forms of living, and which then demand a new politics of those spaces in-between."AbdouMaliq Simone, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield

"Conceptually rich, artfully crafted, and with a striking immediacy, Urbanism without Guarantees offers a compelling analysis of the meanings of urban change from the perspective of ordinary residents."Christine Hentschel, Hamburg University

"A fascinating new book."Viewing NYC

"Christian Andersons Urbanism without Guarantees takes its name from Stuart Halls Marxism without Guarantees (1983) and lives up to its name by delivering a critical Marxist analysis of everyday life."Myung In Ji, ANTIPODE

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Christian M. Anderson is associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington at Bothell.