The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South
edited by Susan Parnell and Sophie Oldfield.
- 1 Edition.
- xxi, 635 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Table of Contents 1. From the South Sophie Oldfield and Susan Parnell; Part 1: Critical Urbanism; 2. Critical Urbanism Sophie Oldfield; 3. Worlding the South: Toward a Postcolonial Urban Theory Ananya Roy; 4. Grounding Southern City Theory in Time and Place Alan Mabin; 5. Is There a ‘South’ Perspective to Urban Studies? Sujata Patel; 6. Disseminating ‘Best Practice’? The Coloniality of Urban Knowledge and City Models Carlos Vainer; 7. New Geographies of Theorizing the Urban: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban Studies Jennifer Robinson; Part 2: The Urban: Past, Present, Future; 8. The Urban: Past, Present, Future Susan Parnell; 9. Shaping Cities of the Global South: Legal Histories of Planning and Colonialism Robert Home; 10. Troubling Continuities: Use and Utility of the Term ‘Slum’ Marie Huchzermeyer; 11. Learning Planning From the South: Ideas from the New Urban Frontiers Vanessa Watson; 12. Urban Land Markets: A Southern Exposure Richard Harris; 13. The Urbanization/Development Nexus in the BRICS Ivan Turok; Part 3: Global Economic Turbulence: (Re)configuring the Urban; 14. Global Economic Turbulence: (Re)configuring the Urban Susan Parnell; 15. Globalizing Capitalism and Southern Urbanization Eric Sheppard; 16. Steering, Speeding, Scaling: China’s Model of Urban Growth and its Implications for Cities of the Global South Xiangming Chen; 17. Does African Urban Policy Provide a Platform for Sustained Economic Growth? Bob
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Cities and towns--Developing countries. City planning--Developing countries. ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.