Myers Rethinking Urbanism

Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0447-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism by using a wide range of case studies from lesser studied cities across the Global South and Global North to present evidence for the need to reconstruct our understanding of who and what makes urban environments.

Myers explores the global hierarchy of cities, the criteria for positioning within these hierarchies and the successes of various policymaking approaches designed specifically to boost a city’s ranking. Engaging heavily with postcolonial studies and Global South thinking, he shows how cities construct one another’s spaces and calls for a new understanding of planetary urbanism that moves beyond Western-centric perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myers, Garth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rethinking Urbanism from the South

Chapter One: Southern Processes of Planetary Urbanization in Hartford

Chapter Two: Villages in the City: Patterns of Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, Dakar and Zanzibar

Chapter Three: The Useful and Ornamental Landscapes of British (Post)Colonialism

Chapter Four: Submarine Urbanism: Cities People Make in ‘The Here and the Elsewhere’

Chapter Five: ‘The Whole World is Made in China’: Products and Infrastructures of Dis/Connection

Chapter Six: Sister Cities: Urban Politics and Policy in a Southern Urban Planet

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Garth Myers is Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies at Trinity College.