Predatory cities, the book

"Predatory urbanism" is that condition by which tangible and intangible resource networks are cheaply exploited for the making of so-called competitive/attractive cities. Talking of predatory cities means studying the extended resource-urbanization nexus that underpins neoliberal city-making. Predatory urban making is not necessarily isolated, disconnected, and opportunistic but implies a relational connection, by virtue of tapping on the global production network of “cheap” resources, with other socially and environmentally troubled areas.

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