The City as a Global Political Actor

ISBN-13: 9780367584306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 282 str.

Stijn Oosterlynck; Luce Beeckmans; David Bassens

Opis

This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement that in the context of paralysed and failing nation-state governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing global challenges. Collectively, the chapters in this volume contextualise urban agency in t

Spis treści

1: An Urban Studies Take on Global Urban Political Agency PART I: The City as a Site for Political Innovation 2: Reflecting on the ‘Global Parliament of Mayors’ Project 3: Social Inequality and Transformation of the Urban Economy 4: Voracious Cities and Obstructing States? 5: Global-Urban Policymaking 6: The Politics of the (Global) Urban: City Strategies as Repeated Instances 7: Whose Urban Agency Is It Anyway? PART II: Exploring City Political Agency around the Globe 8: Greening the Global City: The Role of C40 Cities as Actors in Global Environmental Governance 9: Metropolitan Regions as New Scales and Evolving Policy Concepts in the European Union's Policy Context 10: Building City Political Agency across Scales: the Johannesburg International Relations Strategy 11: A Closer Look at the Role of International Accolades in Worlding Cape Town’s Urban Politics 12: Urban Rehabilitation and Residential Struggles in the Post-socialist City of Budapest 13: Aspiring Global Nations? Tracing the Actors behind Belgrade's 'Nationally Important' Waterfront

　

O autorze

Stijn Oosterlynck is Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Sociology department.

Luce Beeckmans is a full-time post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning of Ghent University, Belgium.

David Bassens is Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, where he is Associate Director of Cosmopolis: Centre for Urban Research. 　

Ben Derudder is Professor of Human Geography at Ghent University’s Department of Geography, and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network.

Barbara Segaert is a scientific coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA), where she develops academic programmes on various topics of contemporary relevance to society.

Luc Braeckmans is Director of Academic Affairs of the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA). He is professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, where he is also chair of the Centre for Andragogy.