/474/ Urban Power in a Planet of Slums ft. Ben Bradlow
On cities and the politics of development.
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Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, talks to Alex about his book Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg.
If our future is urban – and it is – why is it different to what we imagined?
Are Johannesburg and São Paulo representative of what is going on in cities?
How did democratic promise and neoliberal disappointment go together in the 1990s, through to today?
What has been the role of social movements (e.g. for…
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