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Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Mania - David Wilson, Elvin Wyly

Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Mania

Urban Change in the Twenty-First Century
Buch | Softcover
228 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-74228-1 (ISBN)
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This innovative book applies the metaphor of Dracula to understand a highly controversial reality that marks so many cities today: how the rage of smart city development and growth proceeds, is organized, and produces benefits for some and afflicts others.

It also explores how social science research into these issues may be informed by the insights of gothic literature as conceptual bonds are forged between the social sciences and the humanities. Focusing on Miami and Mexico City, the book reveals a new quiet warfare being unleashed on the poor and a “Dracula-like” development conduct being rolled-out that spreads rapidly across the globe.

This book will appeal to students, researchers and informed readers interested in urban studies, city planning, urban sociology, critical geography, and literature studies. The book is lucidly written and substantively deep to enhance classroom teaching and provide important detail for research on urban redevelopment, city restructuring, and societal change. On the popular front, non-academic readers will find the book enriching and compelling, as only few books clearly and provocatively link the shadows of gothic horror with contemporary realities in cities.

David Wilson is Professor of Geography, Urban Planning and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the restructuring of cities in the global north and global south and the urban transformation of the U.S. Rustbelt. He has published widely in many journals tht span geography and the social sciences. His most recent book is Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs (Palgrave-MacMillan). Elvin Wyly is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory, Canada. Wyly studies the spatial dynamics of market processes and public policy with a special emphasis on racial discrimination in mortgage lending, the intensification of gentrification, and the algorithmic reanimation of nineteenth-century Social Darwinist perversions of evolutionary science. Recent essays and articles have appeared in many social science journals and books.

1. Prologue: The Haunt of Dracula-Itis 2. The Labyrinthe of Dracula 3. The Frame: Regimes of City Building 4. Miami: A Global North City Smartening 5. Mexico City: A Global South City Smartening 6. Resisting Dracula Urbanism and Smart City Development 7. A Complicated City Building: Dracula-Itis on the March

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.4.2026
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-032-74228-3 / 1032742283
ISBN-13 978-1-032-74228-1 / 9781032742281
Zustand Neuware
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