Urban Violence Is not (Necessarily) a Way of Life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities

Dennis Rodgers

No wp-2010-020, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: As the world moves towards its so-called urban 'tipping point', urbanization in the global South has increasingly come to be portrayed as the portent of a dystopian future characterized by ever-mounting levels of anarchy and brutality. The association between cities, violence, and disorder is not new, however. In a classic article on 'Urbanism as a way of life', Louis Wirth (1938: 23) famously links cities to 'personal disorganization, mental breakdown, suicide, delinquency, crime, corruption, and disorder'.

Keywords: Regional economics; Social conflict; Urban economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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