Counterhegemony and context: Racial crisis, warfare, and real estate in the neoliberal city

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Jamie Peck's views in "Liberating the City: Between New York and New Orleans" is analyzed. It is discussed that the account reveals the cohesion, planning and the success of the new urban right in a racial restructuring of the cities and the seemingly easy translation of these ideas into state policy, thus raising the hope of counterhegemony to this apparatus of dominance.

Louisiana, Environmental aspects, Political aspects, New Orleans, Louisiana, Group dominance, Racial violence, Hurricane Katrina, 2005

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Low-income communities and urban poverty in China

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The social and economic impacts of market transition and structural adjustment policies in China are examined. The unsmooth process of market transition for many poor residents of China has caused unemployment, decline in income, and a fall in their living standards.

China, Economic aspects, Urban poor, Low income housing

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