Urban Theory Beyond the West : A World of Cities

ISBN-13: 9780415589758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 400 str.

Tim Edensor; Mark Jayne

Opis

Since the late 18th century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book extends the study to cities outside the West.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Urban Theory Beyond ‘the West’  Part 1: De-Centring the City  2. No Longer the Subaltern: Refiguring Cities of the Global South  3. China Exceptionalism? Unbounding Narratives on Urban China  4. Urban Theory beyond the ‘East/West Divide’? Cities and Urban Research in Postsocialist Europe  5. Urbanism, Colonialism, and Subalternity  Part 2: Order/Disorder  6. Governing Cities without States? Rethinking Urban Political Theories in Asia  7. Public Parks in the Americas: New York City and Buenos Aires  8. An Illness Called Managua: ‘Extraordinary’ Urbanisation and ‘Mal- Development’ in Nicaragua  9. The Concept of Privacy and Space in Kurdish Cities  10. The Networked City: Popular Modernizers and Urban Transformation in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1955  Part 3: Mobilities  11. Distinctly Delhi: Affect and Exclusion in a Crowded City  12. Shanghai Borderlands: The Rise of a New Urbanity?  13. Contemporary Urban Culture in Latin America: Everyday Life in Santiago, Chile  14. Urban (Im)mobility: Public Encounters in Dubai  Part 4: Imaginaries  15. Reality Tours: Experiencing the ‘Real Thing’ in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas  16. Modern Warfare and Theorization of the Middle Eastern City  17. Reading Thai Community: Reformation and Fragmentation  18. Urban Political Ecology in the Global South: Everyday Environmental Struggles of Home in Managua, Nicaragua  19. Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words  20. Afterword: A World of Cities

O autorze

Tim Edensor teaches Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests include tourism, materialities and mobilities. Mark Jayne is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include; consumption, the urban order, city cultures and cultural economy.