{"product_id":"terminal-city-michael-simpson-9781517921293","title":"Terminal City: Infrastructures of Racial Colonial Capitalism in Vancouver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe entanglement of Vancouver's infrastructure in settler colonialism and racialized exploitation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVancouver, Canada, has long been held up as an environmentally conscious coastal refuge and model of progressive urban planning. Unpacking the troubling complexities that lie beneath the city's otherwise tidy self-image, \u003ci\u003eTerminal City\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the long, recurring patterns of racialized violence and Indigenous dispossession crucial to its formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining the histories of Vancouver's infrastructures, including railways, ports, the freeway system, fossil-fuel pipelines, and property, Michael Simpson details the various spatial manifestations of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that constitute the city's urban environment--using it as a case study to reveal such tendencies around the world. Simpson exposes how the seizure of Indigenous lands and the destruction of Black communities has been foundational to the development of the city, and he highlights its structural dependency on these violent legacies, as well as the ongoing struggles to dismantle them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together theoretical insights from the fields of urban geography, political ecology, and Indigenous studies, Simpson provides a distinctive intervention into contemporary debates around the material basis of logistics and circulation. At a time when massive upheavals to urban infrastructure are taking place in the hopes of establishing greater sustainability, \u003ci\u003eTerminal City\u003c\/i\u003e raises important questions about how this moment of transition might be harnessed to bring about decolonial abolitionist futures that redefine what a city can become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Simpson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517921295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517921293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Michael Simpson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997573722367,"sku":"9781517921293","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/terminal-city-michael-simpson-9781517921293","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}