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The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the
geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western
vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field
was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many
of the original and foundational works that underpin the research
field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new
theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging
research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including
key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as
John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor,
Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and
Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global
city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and
the very notion of a distinct "global" class of cities has recently
been called into question. The sections examine the foundations of
the field and processes of urban restructuring and global city
formation. A large number of new entries focus on the emerging
urban worlds of Asia, Latin America and Africa, including Beijing,
Bogota, Cairo, Cape Town, Delhi, Istanbul, Medellin, Mumbai, Phnom
Penh, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai. The book also
presents cases off the conventional map of global cities research,
such as smaller cities and less known urban regions that are
undergoing processes of globalization. The book is a key resource
for students and scholars alike who seek an accessible compendium
of the intellectual foundations of global urban studies as well as
an overview of the emergent patterns of early 21st century
urbanization and associated sociopolitical contestation around the
world.
This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian
metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas. Through
examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian
urbanism, the book depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. It
explains how the forces of globalisation, the logic of capital
accumulation, and the history of rural-urban divide and
interaction, path-dependent local institutions, and government
policies work together to reshape the geographies of Asian
urbanism. Touching on social, environmental, governance and
planning aspects of contemporary urban Asia, the chapters in this
volume provide grounded studies of residential relocation and
changing rural settlements, property development by a congregation
of developers, political ecologies of water provision, middle-class
consumers, and local state agencies, transit-oriented development
and infrastructure finance in peri-urban areas. It demonstrates an
assemblage of actors and coexistence of multiple urban governance
regimes with everyday negotiations. Changing Asian Urban
Geographies will be interesting not only to those who wish to know
more about Asian urban geographies but also to scholars and
students wishing to see Asian metropolises in a comparative
perspective of (sub)urban dynamics. The chapters in this book were
originally published in Urban Geography.
This collection is drawn from a recent Global Political conference
held to mark the centenary of the birth of Harold Innis, a
political economist from Canada. Throughout his life, Innis was
concerned with topics which remain central to political ecology
today, such as the link between culture and nature, the impact of
humanity on the environment and the role of technology and
communications. In this volume, the contributors address
environmental issues which Innes was concerened with, from a
contemporary, political economy perspective. They explore a range
of themes and issues including: sustainability; risk and
regulation; population growth; and planetary management. Case
studies provide further insight into issues such as industrial
racism, women and development and collective action.
Political Ecology addresses environmental issues which Innis was concerned with, from a contemporary, political economy perspective. They explore a wide range of themes and issues including: * sustainability * risk and regulation * population growth * planetary management * impact of humanity on environment * role of technology and communication. Case studies provide further insight into issues such as industrial racism, women and development and collective action by highlighting ethical and political questions and providing critical insights into the issues and debates in political ecology.
The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the
massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an
'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide
is happening at the margins of cities. This book is about
the process that creates the global urban periphery –
suburbanization – and the ways of life – suburbanisms – we
encounter there. Richly detailed with examples from around the
world, the book argues that suburbanization is a global process and
part of the extended urbanization of the planet. This
includes the gated communities of elites, the squatter settlements
of the poor, and many built forms and ways of life in-between. The
reality of life in the urban century is suburban: most of the
earth's future 10 billion inhabitants will not live in conventional
cities but in suburban constellations of one kind or
another. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's demand not to give up
urban theory when the city in its classical form disappears, this
book is a challenge to urban thought more generally as it invites
the reader to reconsider the city from the outside in.
Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political
Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings
of the 'city' as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how
cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the
flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has
turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat
seeks to turn UPE's critical energies towards a politically engaged
debate over the role of extensive urbanisation in addressing
socio-environmental equality in the context of climate change. The
collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous
empirical analysis by key scholars spanning three generations,
engaging UPE in current debates about urbanisation and climate
change. Engaging with cutting edge approaches including feminist
political ecology, circular economies, and the Anthropocene, case
studies in the book range from Singapore and Amsterdam to Nairobi
and Vancouver. Contributors make the case for a UPE better informed
by situated knowledges: an embodied UPE that pays equal attention
to the role of postcolonial processes and more-than-human
ontologies of capital accumulation within the context of the
climate emergency. Acknowledging UPE's rich intellectual history
and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, Turning up the
heat reveals how UPE is ideally positioned to address contemporary
environmental issues in theory and practice. -- .
Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political
Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings
of the 'city' as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how
cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the
flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has
turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat
seeks to turn UPE's critical energies towards a politically engaged
debate over the role of extensive urbanisation in addressing
socio-environmental equality in the context of climate change. The
collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous
empirical analysis by key scholars spanning three generations,
engaging UPE in current debates about urbanisation and climate
change. Engaging with cutting edge approaches including feminist
political ecology, circular economies, and the Anthropocene, case
studies in the book range from Singapore and Amsterdam to Nairobi
and Vancouver. Contributors make the case for a UPE better informed
by situated knowledges: an embodied UPE that pays equal attention
to the role of postcolonial processes and more-than-human
ontologies of capital accumulation within the context of the
climate emergency. Acknowledging UPE's rich intellectual history
and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, Turning up the
heat reveals how UPE is ideally positioned to address contemporary
environmental issues in theory and practice. -- .
The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed
beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have
experienced, in Edward Soja's terms, "an epochal shift in the
nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the
beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it."
Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our
understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative
comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and
German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It
expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness
and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing
and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal
governance to the regional scale. With contributions from
established and emerging international scholars of urban and
regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case
studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian
metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions.
It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions
across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable
differences in urban regions' path dependencies in which the larger
processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and
materialized.
The ugly grey heap of cement and asphalt that makes up much of the
urban sprawl is something most of us wish would just go away. And
yet, more than half the world's population will live in urban
centres by the turn of the millennium and most will be exposed to
degraded urban environments. The contributors to Local Places look
at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in
the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the
problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution. This
volume brings together clear and critical analyses and practical
proposals that bring us closer to that reality. A primer for urban
ecologists who seek to sustain the local places but in the larger
political context. Local Places provides planners, community
activists, students and the general reader with a cross section of
current debates and proposals surrounding urban sustainability.
The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the
geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western
vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field
was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many
of the original and foundational works that underpin the research
field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new
theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging
research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including
key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as
John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor,
Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and
Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global
city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and
the very notion of a distinct "global" class of cities has recently
been called into question. The sections examine the foundations of
the field and processes of urban restructuring and global city
formation. A large number of new entries focus on the emerging
urban worlds of Asia, Latin America and Africa, including Beijing,
Bogota, Cairo, Cape Town, Delhi, Istanbul, Medellin, Mumbai, Phnom
Penh, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai. The book also
presents cases off the conventional map of global cities research,
such as smaller cities and less known urban regions that are
undergoing processes of globalization. The book is a key resource
for students and scholars alike who seek an accessible compendium
of the intellectual foundations of global urban studies as well as
an overview of the emergent patterns of early 21st century
urbanization and associated sociopolitical contestation around the
world.
After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art
scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an
in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms
of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge
conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work
conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research
from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase
comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery.
Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery
dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the
Global North, especially North American cases, over other
experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of
a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban
extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex
contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple
centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a
surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape.
Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar
Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories
located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. An
infamously private city in the eyes of outside observers,
structured around single-family homes and an aggressively
competitive regional economy, Los Angeles has often been celebrated
or caricatured as the epitome of an American society bent on
individualism, entrepreneurialism, and market ingenuity. But Don
Parson presents a different vision for the vast Southern California
metropolis, one that is deftly illustrated by stories of sustained
struggles for social and economic justice led by activists, social
workers, architects, housing officials, and a courageous judge.
Public Los Angeles presents insights into LA's historic
collectivism, networks of solidarity, and government policy. A
follow-up to Parson's seminal Making a Better World: Public
Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles
(2005), this volume helps shape our understanding of public
housing, gender and housework, judicial activism, and race and
class in modernday Los Angeles and asks us if history is repeating.
Parson's work anchors a collection of nine essays by friends and
mentors who deepen the discussion of his themes: Dana Cuff, Mike
Davis, Steven Flusty, Greg Goldin, Jacqueline Leavitt, Laura
Pulido, Sue Ruddick, Tom Sitton, Edward W. Soja, and Jennifer
Wolch. The book is richly illustrated. Biographical and curatorial
essays by the book's editors, Roger Keil and Judy Branfman, provide
background material and a coherent storyline for a mosaic of fresh
Los Angeles research.
After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art
scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an
in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms
of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge
conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work
conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research
from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase
comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery.
Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery
dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the
Global North, especially North American cases, over other
experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of
a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban
extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex
contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple
centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a
surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape.
North American gated communities, African squatter settlements,
European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one
thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As
suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the
twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly pressing
set of global challenges. In Suburban Governance: A Global View,
editors Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil have assembled a groundbreaking
set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance
regulates the creation of the world's suburban spaces and everyday
life within them. With contributors from ten countries on five
continents, this collection covers the full breadth of contemporary
developments in suburban governance. Examining the classic North
American model of suburbia, contemporary alternatives in Europe and
Latin America, and the emerging suburbanisms of Africa and Asia,
Suburban Governance offers a strong analytical introduction to a
vital topic in contemporary urban studies.
Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc
logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it
comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise
of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's
foundations and fostered new interest in the concept of scale.
"Leviathan Undone?" brings together leading theorists and scholars
from a variety of disciplines to develop a new language to
understand the spatial restructuring that has accompanied
globalization. By treating scale as the core concept of our time,
these innovative, groundbreaking essays bring a new sensibility to
classical and contemporary concerns in Canadian and international
political economy.
Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects,
Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of
urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal
inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive
suburbia," this book builds a new discussion pertaining to the
problems of the urban periphery, urbanization, and the neoliberal
production of space. Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the
classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the
former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and
examine the new peripheral estates in China, Egypt, Israel,
Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, and Turkey. The
contributors examine a broad variety of cases that speak to the
building or redevelopment of large-scale peripheral housing
estates, tower neighbourhoods, Grands Ensembles, Gro
wohnsiedlungen, and Toplu Konut. Concerned with state and corporate
policy for building suburban estates, Massive Suburbanization
confronts the politics surrounding local inhabitants and their
"right to the suburb."
Pollution of air, soil, and waterways has become a primary concern
of urban environmental policy making, and over the past two decades
there has emerged a new era of urban policy that links development
with ecological issues, based on the notion that both nature and
the economy can be enhanced through technological changes to
production and consumption systems. This book takes a new look at
this application of "ecological modernization" to contemporary
urban political-ecological struggles. Considering policy processes
around land-use in urban watersheds and pollution of air and soil
in two disparate North American "global cities," it criticizes the
dominant belief in the power of markets and experts to regulate
environments to everyoneas benefit, arguing instead that civil
political action by local constituencies can influence the
establishment of beneficial policies. The book emphasizes
asubalterna environmental justice concerns as instrumental in
shaping the policy process. Looking back to the 1990s--when
ecological modernization began to emerge as a dominant approach to
environmental policy and theory--Desfor and Keil examine four case
studies: restoration of the Don River in Toronto, cleanup of
contaminated soil in Toronto, regeneration of the Los Angeles
River, and air pollution reduction in Los Angeles. In each case,
they show that local constituencies can develop political
strategies that create alternatives to ecological modernization.
When environmental policies appear to have been produced through
solely technical exercises, they warn, one must be suspicious about
the removal of contention from the process. In the face of economic
and environmental processes that have beenincreasingly influenced
by neo-liberalism and globalization, Desfor and Keilas analysis
posits that continuing modernization of industrial capitalist
societies entails a measure of deliberate change to societal
relationships with nature in cities. Their book shows that
environmental policies are about much more than green capitalism or
the technical mastery of problems; they are about how future urban
generations live their lives with sustainability and justice.
In a world of cities, suburbanisation is the most visible and
pervasive phenomenon. Global sprawl engulfs us but it does so in
remarkably differentiated ways. While the single-family home
subdivisions of North America remain the "classical case," there
are now many other forms of suburbanism around the globe. The high
rise housing estates around many European and Canadian cities, the
belts and wedges of squatter settlements in the global south, the
burgeoning megacity peripheries between Istanbul and Shanghai and
the technopoles and edge cities in all corners of the world are all
part of a pervasive trend towards global suburbanisms. Suburban
Constellations provides a first account of this global development.
Twenty-two of the most well-known global urban scholars analyse the
multiple manifestations of suburbanisation and suburbanism. They
are joined by artistic and illustrative contributions. Overviews of
suburbanization trends in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia
and Asia complete Suburban Constellations.
Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc
logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it
comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise
of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's
foundations and fostered new interest in the concept of scale.
Leviathan Undone? brings together leading theorists and scholars
from a variety of disciplines to develop a new language to
understand the spatial restructuring that has accompanied
globalization. By treating scale as the core concept of our time,
these innovative, groundbreaking essays bring a new sensibility to
classical and contemporary concerns in Canadian and international
political economy.
Public Los Angeles is a collection of unpublished essays by scholar
Don Parson focusing on little-known characters and histories
located in the first half of twentieth-century Los Angeles. An
infamously private city in the eyes of outside observers,
structured around single-family homes and an aggressively
competitive regional economy, Los Angeles has often been celebrated
or caricatured as the epitome of an American society bent on
individualism, entrepreneurialism, and market ingenuity. But Don
Parson presents a different vision for the vast Southern California
metropolis, one that is deftly illustrated by stories of sustained
struggles for social and economic justice led by activists, social
workers, architects, housing officials, and a courageous judge.
Public Los Angeles presents insights into LA's historic
collectivism, networks of solidarity, and government policy. A
follow-up to Parson's seminal Making a Better World: Public
Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles
(2005), this volume helps shape our understanding of public
housing, gender and housework, judicial activism, and race and
class in modernday Los Angeles and asks us if history is repeating.
Parson's work anchors a collection of nine essays by friends and
mentors who deepen the discussion of his themes: Dana Cuff, Mike
Davis, Steven Flusty, Greg Goldin, Jacqueline Leavitt, Laura
Pulido, Sue Ruddick, Tom Sitton, Edward W. Soja, and Jennifer
Wolch. The book is richly illustrated. Biographical and curatorial
essays by the book's editors, Roger Keil and Judy Branfman, provide
background material and a coherent storyline for a mosaic of fresh
Los Angeles research.
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