The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South

Herausgeber: Parnell, Susan; Oldfield, Sophie

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Produktbeschreibung

The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook embraces the complex ways in which cities of the global south and the global north are rapidly shifting and the imperative for multiple genealogies of knowledge production and a diversity of empirical entry points to understand contemporary urban dynamics. The Handbook works towards a geographical realignment in urban studies, bringing into conversation a wide array of cities across the global south - the 'ordinary', 'mega', 'global' and 'peripheral.' With interdisciplinary contributions from a range of leading international experts, this Handbook profiles an emergent and geographically diverse body of work. The contributions draw on conflicting and divergent debates to open up discussion on the meaning of the city in, or of, the global south, arguments that are fluid and increasingly contested both geographically and conceptually. The Handbook reflects on critical urbanism, the macroscale forces that shape cities including ideological, demographic and technological shifts, and rapidly changing global and regional economic dynamics. Working with southern reference points, the chapters present themes in urban politics, identity and environment in way to (re)frame our thinking about cities. This Handbook is a celebration of scholars and scholarship committed to making urban futures better, more interesting, legible, sustainable, and more just. It engages the twenty first century city through a 'southern urban' lens to stimulate scholarly, professional and activist engagements with the city and ensure that the concerns that dominate Southern policy makers and scholars are appropriately profile.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 177mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1159g
• ISBN-13: 9780415789509
• ISBN-10: 0415789508
• Artikelnr.: 47580719

Autorenporträt

Susan Parnell is an Urban Geographer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and also serves on the Executive Committee of the African Centre for Cities, both at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Sophie Oldfield is a Geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From the South Part 1: Critical Urbanism 2. Critical Urbanism 3.
Worlding the South: Toward a Postcolonial Urban Theory 4. Grounding
Southern City Theory in Time and Place 5. Is There a 'South' Perspective to
Urban Studies? 6. Disseminating 'Best Practice'? The Coloniality of Urban
Knowledge and City Models New Geographies of Theorizing the Urban: Putting
Comparison to Work for Global Urban Studies Part 2: The Urban: Past,
Present, Future 8. The Urban: Past, Present, Future 9. Shaping Cities of
the Global South: Legal Histories of Planning and Colonialism 10. Troubling
Continuities: Use and Utility of the Term 'Slum' 11. Learning Planning From
the South: Ideas from the New Urban Frontiers 12. Urban Land Markets: A
Southern Exposure 13. The Urbanization/Development Nexus in the BRICS Part
3: Global Economic Turbulence: (Re)configuring the Urban 14. Global
Economic Turbulence: (Re)configuring the Urban 15. Globalizing Capitalism
and Southern Urbanization 16. Steering, Speeding, Scaling: China's Model of
Urban Growth and its Implications for Cities of the Global South 17. Does
African Urban Policy Provide a Platform for Sustained Economic Growth? 18.
Disjunctures between Urban Infrastructure, Finance and Affordability 19.
Re-Evaluating the Influence of Urban Agglomeration in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Population Density, Technological Innovation and Productivity 20. The Urban
Informal Economy: Enhanced Knowledge, Appropriate Policies and Effective
Organization 21. Digital Dynamics: New Technologies and Work
Transformations in African Cities Part 4: Politics, Transformation and the
Southern City 22. Politics, Transformation and the Southern City 23.
Substantiating Urban Democracy: The Importance of Popular Representation
and Transformative Democratic Politics 24. The Politics of the Urban
Everyday in Cairo: Infrastructures of Oppositional Action 25. Claiming
'Rights' in the African City: Popular Mobilization and the Politics of
Informality in Nairobi, Casablanca, Johannesburg and Cape Town 26. The
Urban Poor and Strategies for a Pro-Poor Politics: Reflections on
Shack/Slum Dwellers International 27. Occupancy Urbanism as Political
Practice 28. The Missing People: Reflections on an Urban Majority in Cities
of the South Part 5: Negotiating Society and Identity in Urban Spaces of
the South 29. Negotiating Society and Identity in Urban Spaces of the South
30. Conviviality and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Urban Africa 31.
Contentious Identities? Urban Space, Cityness and Citizenship 32. The Place
of Migrant Women and the Role of Gender in the Cities of Asia 33. Spaces of
Difference: Challenging Urban Divisions from the North to the South 34.
Hip-Hop Politics: Recognizing Southern Complexity 35. Gender is Still the
Battleground: Youth, Cultural Production, and the Remaking of Public Space
in São Paulo Part 6: Conceptualizing the Built Environment: Accounting for
Southern Urban Complexities 36. Conceptualizing the Built Environment:
Accounting for Southern Urban Complexities 37. Regulating Service Delivery
in Southern Cities: Rethinking Urban Heterogeneity 38. The Politics and
Technologies of Urban Waste 39. Urban Mobilities: Innovation and Diffusion
in Public Transport 40. Urban Fragmentation, 'Good Governance' and the
Emergence of the Competitive City 41. The New Divided City? Planning and
'Gray Space' Between Global North-West and South-East 42. Gentrification in
the Global South? 43. Peri-Urbanization and the Political Ecology of
Differential Sustainability Part 7: Big Stories of Urban Change 44. Big
Stories of Urban Change 45. Approaching Food Security in Cities of the
Global South 46. Healthy Cities of/from the South 47. Urban Poverty in
Low-and Middle-Income Nations 48. Migration, Urbanization and Changing
Gender Relations in the South 49. Urban Metabolism of the Global South 50.
Urban Dynamics and the Challenges of Global Environmental Change in the
South