Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power and the City

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
	Chapter 1: Navigating the global urban
		Situated urban thinking
		Global urbanisms
		Multiple urban political grounds
		Navigating the global urban
		References
Part II: Rethinking global urbanisms
	Chapter 2: Thinking urban grammars: An interview with Ash Amin
		On policy, practice, and publics
		A politics of the emergent
		Styles of urban thinking
		References
	Chapter 3: Decentering global urbanism: An interview with Ananya Roy
		References
	Chapter 4: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene
		Cities without hinterlands?
		Counterpoint: metabolic urbanization
		The hinterland enigma
		Hinterlands of the Capitalocene
		Enclosure, distanciation and infrastructuralization
		Hinterlands of hinterlands
		From formal to real subsumption
		Metabolic rifts and cycles of creative destruction
		The hinterland question, reframed
		Notes
	Chapter 5: Making space for queer desire in global urbanism
		Looking beyond the global urban gay
		Getting pluriversal
		Concluding implications
		References
	Chapter 6: Seeing like an Italian city: Questioning global urbanism from an “in-between space” in Turin
		Introduction
		From the South (of Europe)
		Worlding Turin?
		Worlding within an ordinary city?
		References
	Chapter 7: Theorising from where? Reflections on de-centring global (southern) urbanism
		Theorising from the global south?
		De-centring and re-centring urban studies?
		Where the neo-Marxian political-economic perspective meets the postcolonial approach
		Coda: The politics of knowledge production and praxis
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 8: Globalizing postsocialist urbanism
		The ongoing aftermath of socialism: (Post)Cold War urbanisms, ghosts, intransigent materialities
			(Post)Cold War urbanisms
			Ghosts and zombies of socialism
			Intransigent materialities
		(Post)socialist city debates and the project of global urbanism
		Note
		References
	Chapter 9: Beyond the noosphere? Northern England’s ‘left behind’ urbanism
		Introduction
		Left behind?
		The habitus of industrial ruination
		The north of England and reconfigured imaginaries
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 10: Footnote urbanism: The missing East in (not so) global urbanism
		Rummaging through the footnotes of global urbanism
		From the footnotes to the main act: ‘Nobody knows where it is, but when you find – it’s amazing.’
		References
	Chapter 11: Comparative urbanism and global urban studies: Theorising the urban
		References
Part III: Everyday global urbanisms
	Chapter 12: Global urbanism inside/out: Thinking through Jakarta
		Introduction
		Global urbanist discourse: Othering kampungs
		Kampung lived realities
		Agentic spaces of alterity
		Concluding reflections
		Note
		References
	Chapter 13: Tiwa’s morning
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14: “Out there, over the hills, on the other side of the tracks”: A horizon of the global urban
		Too late for modernity
		The black outdoors
		Exposure to time
		Itineraries of exposure
		References
	Chapter 15: Constructing the South-East Asian ascent: Global vertical urbanisms of brick and sand
		Introduction
		Brick
		Sand
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 16: Nairobi city, streets and stories: Young lives stay in place while going global through digital stages
		Growing up (digitally) global
		Nairobeez: From neighbourhood street rhymes to city street tours
		Note
		References
	Chapter 17: Rethinking global urbanism from a ‘fripe’ marketplace in Tunis
		Introduction
		The bale opening: Mediating encounters with contingent global forms
		Incorporation, adaptation and reinvention: Remaking global forms in the marketplace
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 18: Liminal spaces and resistance in Mexico City: Towards an everyday global urbanism
		Male liminal spaces
		Female spatial experiences on everyday journeys
		Some final reflections
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 19: Death and the city: Necrological notes from Kinshasa
		Intro: Housing in heaven
		Displaced urbanism, urbanism of displacement
		City as cemetery
		Cemetery as city
		Necropolis – the new global southern urbanism?
		Conclusion: The eschatological orientation of southern global urbanism
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 20: Pathways toward a dialectical urbanism: Thinking with the contingencies of crisis, care and capitalism
		Infrastructures of inequality in the Cape Town water crisis
		Policing order: Land occupation and eviction
		Multi-sited relations of indebtedness
		Note
		References
	Chapter 21: Global self-urbanism: Self-organisation amidst regulatory crisis and uneven urban citizenship
		Introduction: For a unitary conceptualisation of self-urbanism
		The rise of self-urbanism in the twentieth century
		The complexity of self-urbanism in the housing sphere: A stratified definition
		The implications of global self-urbanism: The new institutional archipelago in the midst of the regulatory crisis
		Conclusions: The epistemic value of investigating global self-urbanism
		Notes
		References
Part IV: Governing global urbanisms
	Chapter 22: Unlocking political potentialities
		Sentinel
		Artist
		Designer
		Hacker
		Subversive bureaucrat
		In Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 23: Climate changed urbanism?
		Introduction
		Urbanising climate change
		Climate changing urbanism
		Transforming urban futures?
		References
	Chapter 24: The global urban condition and politics of thermal metabolics: The chilling prospect of killer heat
		Introduction
		Overheating and urban thermal metabolism
		An emerging urban thermal politics
		Urban thermal infrastructures: Outside cooling and heating
		Urban climate modification: Simulation and greenwash, comfort and convenience or essential climate security
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 25: On the deployment of scientific knowledge for a new urbanism of the anthropocene
		Introduction
		Building consensus in a heterogeneous, chaotic world
		The elusive policy-making audience
		Toward recognition of multiple knowledge systems
		References
	Chapter 26: Global cities and the bioeconomy of health innovation
		Introduction
		Global urbanism and health
		The global bioeconomy
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 27: Hacking the urban code: Notes on durational imagination in city-making
		Permanence and durability
		Planning and impermanence
		The politics of surprise
		Conclusion: Reimagine temporality and scale
		Bibliography
	Chapter 28: Global urbanism: Urban governance innovation in/for a world of cities
		Introduction
		Innovating urban governance in/for a world of cities
		Researching urban governance innovation in/for global urbanism
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 29: Corridor urbanism
		Corridors as a new techno-territorial phenomenon
		A new epistemology of global urbanism
		A research agenda for corridor urbanism?
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 30: Beyond-the-network urbanism: Everyday infrastructures in states of mutation
		Introduction
		Cities within a city: Urban fractures and fragments
		Beyond the network as beyond the state?
		The body as infrastructure
		Conclusion: Everyday urban infrastructures in mutation
		Note
		References
	Chapter 31: Still construction and already ruin
		A metaphor of a monumental future
		An allegory of the “global south” in the making
		An ethnographic motif (undone)
		Note
		References
	Chapter 32: The migration of spaces: Monumental urbanism beyond materiality
		References
	Chapter 33: Land as situated spatio-histories: A dialogue with global urbanism
		Questioning a singular global narrative
			Tongbian philosophy
			SSP, Kowloon, Hong Kong
			VN East Delhi
			Situated histories as difference
		Bibliography
Part V: Contesting global urbanism
	Chapter 34: Women organising, advocacy and Indian cities in between informal dwelling and informal economies: An interview with SEWA’s Renana Jhabvala
	Chapter 35: From a Neapolitan perspective, reaching out beyond prevailing cultural models : An interview Emma Ferulano
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 36: Urban struggles and theorising from Eastern European cities: A collective interview with Ana Vilenica, Ioana Florea, Veda Popovici and Zsuzsi Pósfai
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 37: Planning, community spaces and youth urban futures: From Accra, in conversation with Victoria Okoye and Yussif Larry Aminu
		Note
	Chapter 38: A counter-dominant global urbanism?: Experiments from Lebanon
		Utopias and imaginaries
		Lebanon’s yearnings for another urbanism
		A counter-dominant global urbanism?
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 39: Living in the city beyond housing: Urbanism of the commons
		Neoliberalisation urbanism: Individualisation limits dwelling and social mobilisation
		Breaking through fragmentation and the local scale
		Towards an urbanism of the commons
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
Index