Gideon Boie
GIDEON BOIE is an architect-philosopher, a teacher and researcher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture and a co-founder of the BAVO collective. He currently lives and works in Brussels. His research focuses on the political dimension of art, architecture and urban planning. BAVO expands the critical function of research by actively engaging with practice and by intervening in public debates. See also: www.bavo.biz
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The urban theoretical office BAVO invited scholars from a diversity of disciplines to reflect on the current eclipse of urban politics. Urban Politics Now offers an in-depth analysis of the many symptoms that plague the neoliberal city, such as gratuitous violence, zero tolerance, consumptive hedonism and socioeconomic segregation. It also proposes ways to re-establish the city as the driving force behind a democratic politics with an emancipatory agenda.
While all contributions are global in scope, focus lies on recent urban developments in Western Europe and the Netherlands in particular.
Edited by BAVO (Gideon Boie & Matthias Pauwels)
With contributions by Guy Baeten, BAVO, Friedrich von Borries & Matthias Böttger, Bülent Diken & Carsten Bagge Lautsen, Henk van Houtum & Bas Spierings, Dieter Lesage, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Merijn Oudenampsen, Neil Smith, Edward W. Soja, Yannis Stavrakakis, Erik Swyngedouw and Slavoj Žižek.
Publisher: nai010 publishers (March 1, 2008)
Series: Reflect (Book 6)
Paperback: 240 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9056626167
ISBN-10: 9056626167
Apart from theorizing these typically Dutch characteristics of neoliberal spatial processes, the book also develops a critical stance towards them. Its main contention is that despite the seemingly progressive character of spatial planning developments and schemes in the Netherlands - especially to outsiders - nothing less than a new urban class struggle has been unleashed. Twenty years of neoliberalization of spatial planning and policy has resulted in the increasing marginalization of an ever larger population and the loss of their rights to the city - whether it concerns social renters or squatters. The latter is matched by the ever more royal preferential treatment in urban planning schemes granted to those groups and enterprises that are considered to give Dutch cities a decisive competitive edge in the struggle with their global counterparts.