non fiction, sociology.

Titles by Ronaldo Munck

Reinventing the City?: Liverpool in comparative perspective

The city has always been a strong focal point for critical social enquiry, given its undisputed centrality for human life in the modern era. More recently, there has been a surge of interest in the postmodern city, the most popular subject being Los Angeles, and the been a surge of interest in the postmodern city, the most popular subject being Los Angeles, and the ‘global city’ – New York, London, Tokyo – cities linked together through flows of finance. Reinventing the City? addresses the idea of the city using Liverpool, a city recognised neither as ‘global’ nor ‘postmodern’, as its focus. Although Liverpool is the central theme of the book, the contributors give an informed comparative overview of the city in a worldwide context.

Price £45.00

Details

• ISBN 0 85323 797 2
• Publisher LUP
• Genre Non Fiction
• Setting Merseyside