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Mega-Urbanization in the Global South - Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state (Paperback)
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Mega-Urbanization in the Global South - Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
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The global south is entering an 'Urban Age' where, for the first
time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the
countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing
- rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion,
severe fuel shortages and the breakdown of law and order. We are
told that we must be prepared. The solution is simple, they say.
Mega-urbanization is an opportunity for economic growth and
prosperity. Therefore we must build big, build new and build fast.
With contributions from an international range of established and
emerging scholars drawing upon real-world examples,
Mega-Urbanization in the Global South is the first to use the lens
of speed to examine the postcolonial 'urban revolution'. From the
mega-urbanization of Lusaka, to the production of satellite cities
in Jakarta, to new cities built from scratch in Masdar, Songdo and
Rajarhat, this book argues that speed is now the persistent feature
of a range of utopian visions that seek to expedite the production
of new cities. These 'fast cities' are the enduring images of
postcolonial urbanism, which bypass actually existing urbanisms
through new power-knowledge coalitions of producing, knowing and
governing the city. The book explores three main themes. Part I
examines fast cities as new urban utopias which propagate the
illusion that they are 'quick fix' sustainable solutions to
insulate us from future crises. Part II discusses the role of the
entrepreneurial state that despite its neoliberalisation is playing
a key role in shaping mega-urbanization through laws, policies and
brute force. Part III finally delves into how fast cities built by
entrepreneurial states actually materialise at the scale of
regional urbanization rather than as metropolitan growth. This book
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
concludes with a vision and manifesto for 'slow' and decelerated
urbanism. This timely and original book 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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