Locating Right to the City in the Global South

ISBN-13: 9780415635646 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 316 str.

Tony Roshan Samara; Shenjing He; Guo Chen

Opis

With urban inequality widely recognized as central to many of the most pressing challenges facing the world, there is a need for a deeper understanding of cities of the South on their own terms. This text aims to document and make sense of urban transformations across a range of cities, as well as the conflicts and struggles for social justice these are generating.

Recenzje

"Locating Right to the City in the Global South, brings together empirically and theoretically rich case studies that contribute to the development of conceptual tools for understanding contemporary urban inequality." — Andy Clarno, University of Illinois at Chicago, City & Community

"While there is a rising appeal for understanding the contexts of global urbanism, this book represents a major concrete step towards this aim, by taking a widely popularized core concept of urban theory and paying extra attention to distinct locations in the Global South." — Fulong Wu, University College London, UK in Urban Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: Locating Right to the City in the Global South  Part I: A City Divided Against Itself  1. Towards the Right to the City in Informal Settlements  2. Cities Without Slums in Morocco? New Modalities of Urban government and the Bidonville as a Neoliberal Assemblage  3. The Divisive Nature of Neoliberal Urban Renewal in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso  4. Greening Dispossession: Environmental Governance and Socio-spatial Transformation in Yixing, China  Part II: Governance and Cosmopolitanism: Escaping the South  5. Urban Governance, Mega-Projects, and Scalar Transformations in China and India  6. Bourgeois Environmentalism, Leftist Development, and Neoliberal Urbanism in the City of Joy  7. Public Space Versus Tableau: The Right To The City Paradox In Neoliberal Bogotá, Colombia  8. Resisting the Neoliberalization of Space in Mexico City  9. City Ghosts: The Haunted Struggles for Downtown Durban and Berlin Neukölln  Part III: Governance and Counter-governance: The Shape of Urban Conflict and the Urban Future  10. Insurgency and Institutionalized Social Participation in Local-level Urban Planning: The Case of PAC Comuna, Santiago de Chile, 2003-2005  11. Distinguishing the Right Kind of City: Contentious Urban Middle Classes in Argentina, Brazil, and Turkey  12. Bloggers’s Right to Cairo’s Real and Virtual Spaces of Protest  Afterword: Re-engaging with Transnational Urbanism