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Urban Geopolitics - Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities (Hardcover)
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Urban Geopolitics - Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
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In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged,
putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda.
However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies
on a few selected cities in America and Europe and all too often
focus on the abstract city level with marginal attention given to
particular local contexts. Moving away from loosely defined urban
theories and contexts, this book argues it is time to start
learning from and compare across different 'contested cities'. It
questions the long-standing Euro-centric academic knowledge
production that is prevalent in urban studies and planning
research. This book brings together a diverse range of
international case studies from Latin America, South and South East
Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East to offer an
in-depth understanding of the worldwide contested nature of cities
in a wide range of local contexts. It suggests an urban ontology
that moves beyond the urban 'West' and 'North' as well as adding a
comparative-relational understanding of the contested nature that
'Southern' cities are developing. This timely contribution is
essential reading for those working in the fields of human
geography, urban studies, planning, politics, area studies and
sociology.
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