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Swapna Banerjee-Guha (ed.), Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order (SAGE), 2010

Swapna Banerjee-Guha (ed.), Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New... Environment and Urbanization ASIA Book Review 2(1) 145–147 © 2011 National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC DOI: 10.1177/097542531000200110 http://eua.sagepub.com Swapna Banerjee-Guha (ed.), Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order (SAGE), 2010. Globalization has transformed cities, regions and countries, positively and negatively, depending on which side of the fence one is standing on. While there have been many success stories attributed to globalization, there is also a flip side, which has lead to dispossession. The neglect and marginalization of the poor in the process of globalization and urbanization, both in the economic and spatial sense, is the subject of the book edited by Swapna Banerjee-Guha. The book is an adequate attempt to bring a number of well known urban scholars under one umbrella. Chapter 1, by Swapna Banerjee-Guha, places cities in the global context and brings out the impact of globalization on the poor and on the organization of urban space. In Chapter 2 David Harvey looks at the people’s rights to the city and in Chapter 3 Saskia Sassen looks at the global city in some detail. Chapters 4–10 are case studies of various cities: Heinz http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Urbanization ASIA SAGE

Swapna Banerjee-Guha (ed.), Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order (SAGE), 2010

Raghupathi, Usha P.
Environment and Urbanization ASIA , Volume 2 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2011
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Environment and Urbanization ASIA Book Review 2(1) 145–147 © 2011 National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC DOI: 10.1177/097542531000200110 http://eua.sagepub.com Swapna Banerjee-Guha (ed.), Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order (SAGE), 2010. Globalization has transformed cities, regions and countries, positively and negatively, depending on which side of the fence one is standing on. While there have been many success stories attributed to globalization, there is also a flip side, which has lead to dispossession. The neglect and marginalization of the poor in the process of globalization and urbanization, both in the economic and spatial sense, is the subject of the book edited by Swapna Banerjee-Guha. The book is an adequate attempt to bring a number of well known urban scholars under one umbrella. Chapter 1, by Swapna Banerjee-Guha, places cities in the global context and brings out the impact of globalization on the poor and on the organization of urban space. In Chapter 2 David Harvey looks at the people’s rights to the city and in Chapter 3 Saskia Sassen looks at the global city in some detail. Chapters 4–10 are case studies of various cities: Heinz

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