| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) |
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Routledge studies in urbanism and the city |
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Routledge studies in urbanism and the city.
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| Contents |
Post-war reconstruction in contested cities: comparing urban outcomes in Sarajevo and Beirut / Gruia Badescu -- Negotiating cities: Nairobi and Cape Town / Liza Rose Cirolia -- Ordinary urban geopolitics: contrasting Jerusalem and Stockholm / Jonathan Rokem -- The tale of ethno-political and spatial claims in a contested city: the Muhajir community in Karachi / Sadaf Sultan Khan, Kayvan Karimi and Laura Vaughan -- The practice of 'marketplace coordination' in Jakarta (1977-98) / Pawda F. Tjoa -- The politics of doing nothing: a rethinking of the culture of poverty in Khulna c. 1882-1990 / Apurba Kumar Podder -- The camp vs the campus: the geopolitics of urban thresholds in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus / Moriel Ram -- Urban planning, religious voices and ethnicity in the contested city of Acre: the Lababidi mosque explored / Nimrod Lus and Nurit Stadler -- Exploring the roots of contested public spaces of Cairo: theorizing structural shifts and increased complexity / Mohamed Saleh -- Unpacking narratives of social conflict and inclusion: anti-gentrification neighbourhood organization in Santiago, Chile / Camila Cociña and Ernesto López-Morales -- The Medellín's shifting geopolitics of informality: the Encircled Garden as a dispositive of civil disenfranchisement? / Catalina Ortiz and Camilla Boano -- Assessing critical urban geopolitics in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil / Peter D.A. Wood -- Geopolitics, cosmopolitanism and planning: contested cities in a global context / Michael Safier with Jonathan Rokem and Camillo Boano |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Political aspects -- Developing countries
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City planning -- Political aspects -- Developing countries
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Geopolitics -- Developing countries
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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City planning -- Political aspects
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Geopolitics
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Urbanization -- Political aspects
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rokem, Jonathan, editor.
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Boano, Camillo, editor
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| ISBN |
9780315659278 |
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0315659270 |
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131733356X |
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9781317333562 |
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