Cities in relations : trajectories of urban development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou

Content: List of Figures vii     List of Tables x     Acronyms xi     Series Editors' Preface xiii     Preface and Acknowledgements xiv     1 Comparing Cities in Relations 1     Relating Hanoi, Ouagadougou ... and Palermo 4     A Brief Introduction to Two Distant Cousins 5     World-city Research Beyond the West 9     Relational Geographies 12     Comparing Cities 17     The Structure of the Book 26     2 Trajectories of Urban Change in Two Ordinary Cities 31     Regime Change in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 33     Forms of Relatedness 42     Conclusion 55     3 Transnational Policy Relations 60     Mobile Planners and City Networks 63     Concrete and Paper in Hanoi's Urban Development 64     Ouagadougou's Competing Worlds of Policy Relations 76     Conclusion 87     4 Public Space Policies on the Move 92     A Repertoire of Translocal Connections 94     Public Space: Understandings, Practices and Things 97     Translocal Connections and Public Space Policy in the Making 103     The Politics of Translocal Connections 108     Traveling Participation and Public Space Design 110    Conclusion 116     5 Connecting to Circuits of Architectural Design 120     Stretched Geographies of Design 121     Circuits of Architectural Design in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 123     Hanoi: Design Spaces of an Emerging Economy 125     Ouagadougou: Architectures of Development 131     Grounding Design 136     Conclusion: Transnational Learning Processes and "Banal" Nationalism 140     6 On Road Interchanges and Shopping Malls: What Traveling Types Do 145     Modernization as Morality and Power 147     Modernization Through Ouagadougou's Built Environment 150     Staging New Social Identities in Hanoi's Shopping Malls 159     Conclusion 166     Conclusion: For a Politics of Urban Relatedness 171     Comparing Processes, Worlds of Relations, and Relational Effects 172     The Evolving Relational Worlds of Cities 175     An Assets-based Politics of Relatedness 178     References 181     Index 196