This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I City Materialities
• 1 Reflections on Materialities
• 2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets
• 3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis
• 4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century
• 5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad
• 6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis
• 7 Objects and the City
• 8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore
• 9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings
• 10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon
• 11 The New Military Urbanism
• 12 The City's New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market
• 13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform
• Part II City Mobilities
• 14 Reflections on Mobilities
• 15 “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control
• 16 Transnationality and the City
• 17 Migrants Making Technology Markets
• 18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City
• 19 Nomadic Cities
• 20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City
• 21 Disease and Infection in the City
• 22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space
• 23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space
• Part III City Affect
• 24 Reflections on Affect
• 25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City
• 26 The Future of New York's Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11
• 27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China
• 28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong
• 29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City
• 30 City Life and the Senses
• 31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies
• 32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces
• Part IV City Publics and Cultures
• 33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures
• 34 Reflections on the Public Realm
• 35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century?
• 36 “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference
• 37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho
• 38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s
• 39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City
• 40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore
• 41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City
• 42 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith
• 43 Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle
• Part V City Divisions and Differences
• 44 Reflections on Division and Difference
• 45 The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
• 46 Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities
• 47 Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City
• 48 Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary
• 49 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance
• 50 Gentrification of the City
• 51 The Homosexuality of Cities
• 52 Gendering Urban Space
• 53 Nights in the Global City
• Part VI City Politics and Planning
• 54 Reflections on Politics and Planning
• 55 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World
• 56 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning
• 57 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below
• 58 Shaping Good Cities and Citizens
• 59 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era
• 60 Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China's Cities
• 61 Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China's Urbanism in the Making
• 62 Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City
• 63 Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies
• 64 Making Up Global Urban Policies
• 65 Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed?