Mega-Urbanization in the Global South (eBook, PDF)

Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state
Redaktion: Datta, Ayona; Shaban, Abdul

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Produktbeschreibung

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial 'urban revolution'. It explores the contradictions between intended and unintended outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between state sovereignty, capital accumulation and citizenship. It presents urban scholars with the theoretical, empirical and methodological challenges of mega-urbanization in the global south, as well as highlighting new theoretical agendas and empirical analyses that these new forms of city-making bring to the fore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317754732
• Artikelnr.: 47134493

Autorenporträt

Ayona Datta is Reader in Human Geography at Kings College London, UK. Abdul Shaban is Professor at the School of Development Studies and Deputy Director (Tuljapur campus), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Fast cities in the Urban Age
Ayona Datta
Fast cities and 'new' urban utopias
2. Frictionless Utopias for the Contemporary Urban Age: Large-scale,
Master-planned Redevelopment Projects in Urbanizing Africa
Martin Murray
3. New African city plans: local urban form and the acceleration of urban
inequalities.
Vanessa Watson
4. Speed kills: Fast urbanism and endangered sustainability in the Masdar
City project
Federico Cugurullo
Entrepreneurial states
5. Envisioned by the State: Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Making of
Songdo City, South Korea
Hyun Shin
6. From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf: Qatar
Foundation's Education City
Agatino Rizzo
7. 'Their houses on our land': Perforations and blockades in the Planning
of New Town Rajarhat, India
Ratoola Kundu
Mega-urbanization and Masterplanning
8. Mega-suburbanization in Jakarta Mega-urban Region
Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman
9. Mega- Scale Sustainability: The relational production of a new Lusaka
Mathew Lane
10. Planning new towns in the People's Republic: Political dimensions of
eco-city images in China.
Braulio Morera
Slow: Towards a decelerated urbanism
Abdul Shaban and Ayona Datta