Cities of the global South reader / edited by Faranak Miraftab and Neema Kudva.
"The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the field of urbanization in the developing world, which has seen significant shifts in its thematic and geographic focus since it first began to be defined in the mid-twentieth century. This Reader incorporates both...
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Urban lives: stories from Tehran / Ali Madanipour
- Colonialism and urban development / Anthony D. King
- Cities interlinked / Doreen Massey
- Development and the city / Michael Goldman
- World cities, or a world of ordinary cities? / Jennifer Robinson
- Township politics / Mzwanele Mayekiso
- The urbanity of movement: dynamic frontiers in contemporary Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone
- Migration and privatization of space and power in late socialist China / Li Zhang
- Working in the streets of Cali, Colombia: survival strategy, necessity, or unavoidable evil? / Ray Bromley
- Anchoring transnational flows: hypermodern spaces in the global South / Sudeshna Mitra
- International policy for urban housing markets in the global South since 1945 / Richard Harris
- Women and self-help housing projects: a conceptual framework for analysis and policy-making / Caroline O.N. Moser
- The suburbanization of Jakarta: a concurrence of economics and ideology / Michael Leaf
- Environmental problems of third world cities: a global issue ignored? / Jorge E. Hardoy and David Satterthwaite
- Victims, villains and fixers: the urban environment and Johannesburg's poor / Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell
- Formalizing the informal? The transformation of Cairo's refuse collection system / Ragui Assaad
- Urban transport policy as if people and the environment mattered: pedestrian accessibility is the first step / Madhav G. Badami
- Kinshasa and its (im)material infrastructure / Filip De Boeck and Marie-Françoise Pissart
- "Going south" with the Starchitects: urbanist ideology in the Emirati City / Ahmed Kanna
- Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 earthquake and the transformation of the capital / Diane E. Davis
- Disruption by design: urban infrastructure and political violence / Stephen Graham
- Between violence and desire: space, power, and identity in the making of metropolitan Delhi / Amita Baviskar
- Climate dangers and atoll countries / Jon Barnett and W. Neil Adger
- New spaces, new contests: appropriating decentralization for political change in Bolivia / Ben Kohl and Linda Farthing
- Deep democracy: urban governmentality and the horizon of politics / Arjun Appadurai
- Sovereignty: crisis, humanitarianism, and the condition of 21st century sovereignty / Michael Mascarenhas
- The citizens of Porto Alegre / Gianpaolo Baiocchi
- Whose voices? Whose choices? Reflections on gender and participatory development / Andrea Cornwall
- Squatters and the state: the dialectics between social integration and social change (case studies in Lima, Mexico, and Santiago de Chile) / Manuel Castells
- Global mobility, shifting borders and urban citizenship / Michael Peter Smith and Luis Eduardo Guarnizo
- Cyberactivism and citizen mobilization in the streets of Cairo / Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn
- Why India cannot plan its cities: informality, insurgence and the idiom of urbanization / Ananya Roy
- International best practice, enabling frameworks and the policy process: a South African case study / Richard Tomlinson.