Waste and the City

Name: Waste and the City
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781839760549
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The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife

By Colin McFarlane

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Summary

Waste and the City explores the complex relationship between urban living and waste management. Colin McFarlane delves into how city dwellers produce, manage, and rethink waste, offering insights into social and cultural dynamics that shape our urban environments. The book examines innovative approaches to waste, highlighting both challenges and solutions within cityscapes.
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This book may appeal to you if you're fascinated by the intersections of urban life and sustainability and you have an interest in the ways cities handle waste and their impact on culture. Colin McFarlane takes an insightful look at how waste management reflects and shapes the character of cities, offering a unique perspective on urban ecology and architecture.

Sanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.

Sanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.

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In an age of pandemics, the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating consequences of unequal access to sanitation in cities across the globe. At this critical moment in global public health, Colin McFarlane makes the urgent case for Sanitation for All.

The book outlines the worldwide sanitation crisis and offers a vision for a renewed, equitable investment in sanitation that democratises and socialises the modern city. Adopting Henri Lefebvre's concept of 'the right to the city', it uses the notion of 'citylife' to reframe the discourse on sanitation from a narrowly-defined policy discussion to a question of democratic right to public life and health. In doing so, the book shows that sanitation is an urbanising force whose importance extends beyond hygiene to the very foundation of urban social life.

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Waste and the City by Colin McFarlane is praised for its insightful and thought-provoking examination of the global sanitation crisis, especially in the Global South. The book challenges readers to view sanitation not only as a technical issue but as a fundamental right and a critical factor in urban inequality. McFarlane's extensive research offers a hopeful yet realistic discussion on infrastructural improvements, social justice, and the democratic right to urban life. Through its focus on gender, class, and environmental challenges, the book sets a global agenda for how cities can address sanitation for equitable and liveable community development.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839760549

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 August 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 354g

Pages: 320

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Arts & Culture Colin McFarlane Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Non-Fiction

About the Author

Colin McFarlane is a Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. His research focuses mainly on the global sanitation crisis in cities across the world. He's previously written and co-authored three books on sanitation and urban life.