Cities of Power The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global
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Göran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and the author of, most recently, Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy, also published by Verso. His works have appeared in at least twenty-four languages.Göran Therborn analyses urban life with sweeping historical and global range. As he shows in tremendous detail, urban history is baked into a place by its streets, its institutions and the cultural outlook of its inhabitants
- Max Holleran, Times Literary Supplement
Should become an early port of call for anyone looking to know more about how urban and national power functions around the world
Irish Times
One of the world's most engaging and intriguing sociologists. <i>Cities of Power</i> helps us understand the current tensions between states and people, capitals and peripheries, populism and elitism, nationalism and globalism
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of <i>Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States</i>,
<i>Cities of Power</i> is explicitly a riposte to the idea of the Global City, and the peculiar <i>Monocle</i>-magazine vision of trans-national, interconnected, intangible capitalism that it serves to alternately describe and vindicate. Few thinkers display such a genuinely global range
- Owen Hatherley, New Left Review
One more publication in a sparkling list of career accomplishments, <i>Cities of Power</i> might function as an important resource for many a sociology doctoral student
- Luzia Lodder, PopMatters