ISBN:
9780203802861
,
0203802861
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (391 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Urban theory beyond the West
DDC:
307.7601
Keywords:
Urbanization Philosophy
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City planning Philosophy
;
Urban geography
;
Political geography
;
Political ecology
;
Stadtsoziologie
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Stadtentwicklung
;
Stadtplanung
;
Stadt
;
Metropole
;
Stadtforschung
;
Urbanität
;
Politische Geographie
;
Urbanization
;
Philosophy
;
City planning
;
Philosophy
;
Urban geography
;
Political geography
;
Political ecology
;
Stadtplanung
;
Stadtforschung
;
Urbanität
;
Politische Geografie
Abstract:
Front Cover; Urban Theory Beyond the West; Copyright Page; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: urban theory beyond the West: Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne; Part I: De-centring the city; 2. No Longer the subaltern: refiguring cities of the global south: AbdouMaliq Simone; 3. China Exceptionalism?: Unbounding narratives on urban China: Choon-Piew Pow; 4. Urban theory Beyond the 'East/West divide'?: Cities and urban research in postsocialist Europe: Slavomíra Ferenčuhová
Abstract:
5. Urbanism, colonialism and subalternity: Swati ChattopadhyayPart II: Order/disorder; 6. Governing cities without states?: Rethinking urban political theories in Asia: Yooil Bae; 7. Public parks in the Americas: New York City and Buenos Aires: Nora Libertun de Duren; 8. An illness called Managua: 'extraordinary' urbanization and 'mal-development' in Nicaragua: Dennis Rodgers; 9. The concept of privacy and space in Kurdish cities: Hooshmand Alizadeh; 10. The networked city: popular modernizers and urban: transformation in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1955: Christina M. Jiménez; Part III: Mobilities.
Abstract:
11. Distinctly Delhi: affect and exclusion in a crowded city: Melissa Butcher12. Shanghai borderlands: the rise of a new urbanity: Deljana Iossifova; 13. Contemporary urban culture in Latin America: everyday life in Santiago, Chile: Jorge Inzulza-Contardo; 14. Urban (im)mobility: public encounters in Dubai: Yasser Elsheshtawy; Part IV: Imaginaries; 15. Reality tours: experiencing the 'real thing' in Rio de Janeiro's favelas: Beatriz Jaguaribe and Scott Salmon; 16. Modern warfare and the theorization of the Middle Eastern city: Sofia T. Shwayri.
Abstract:
17. Reading Thai community: the processes of reformation and fragmentation: Cuttaleeya Jiraprasertkun18. Urban political ecology in the global south: everyday environmental struggles of home in Managua, Nicaragua: Laura Shillington; 19. Spectral Kinshasa: building the city through an architecture of words: Filip De Boeck; 20. Afterword: a world of cities: Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in 'the Global North'. Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters from leading scholars, raising important theoretical issues about cities throughout the world. Past and current conceptual developments are reviewed and organized into four parts: 'De-centring the Ci
DOI:
10.4324/9780203802861
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