The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City

Editors: Hall, Suzanne and Burdett, Ricky
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Sage UK

Single-User Purchase Price: $160.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $240.00
ISBN: 978-1-47-390756-0
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
Image Count: 68
Book Status: Available
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The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanization, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways, speaking to new ideas of what constitutes the urban, highlighting empirical explorations and expanding on contributions to policy and design.

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Table of Contents

    • List of Figures
    • List of Tables
    • Notes on Editors and Contributors
    • Publisher's Acknowledgements
    • 1 Introduction: Urban Churn - Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett
    • PART I QUESTIONS OF DEFINITION: AN URBAN COMPENDIUM
    • 2 The Global Urban: Difference and Complexity in Urban Studies and the Science of Cities - Susan Parnell and Jennifer Robinson
    • 3 Urban Studies and the Postcolonial Encounter - Ananya Roy
    • 4 Elements for a New Epistemology of the Urban - Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid
    • PART II HIERARCHY: ELITES AND EVICTIONS
    • 5 The Elite Habitus in Cities of Accumulation - Mike Savage
    • 6 Reimagining Chinese London - Caroline Knowles and Roger Burrows
    • 7 Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty - Matthew Desmond
    • PART III PRODUCTIVITY: OVER-INVESTMENT AND ABANDONMENT
    • 8 Global Cities: Places for Researching the Translocal - Saskia Sassen
    • 9 Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure - Alex Schafran
    • 10 Urban Economies and Social Inequalities - Fran Tonkiss
    • 11 Ruination and Post-industrial Urban Decline - Alice Mah
    • PART IV AUTHORITY: GOVERNANCE AND MOBILISATIONS
    • 12 The Political Sociology of Cities and Urbanisation Processes: Social Movements, Inequalities and Governance - Patrick Le Galès
    • 13 Limits to South Africa's ‘Right to the City’: Prospects for and beyond Urban Commoning - Patrick Bond
    • 14 Aesthetic Governmentality: Administering the World-Class City in Delhi's Slums - D. Asher Ghertner
    • PART V VOLATILITY: DISRUPTION AND ADAPTATION
    • 15 Post-disaster Recovery and Rebuilding - Kevin Fox Gotham and Wesley Cheek
    • 16 What the Eye Does Not See: The Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi - Amita Baviskar
    • 17 Endangered City: Security and Citizenship in Bogotá - Austin Zeiderman
    • PART VI CONFLICT: VULNERABILITY AND INSURGENCY
    • 18 The European ‘Refugee Crisis’ in ‘Our’ Cities: Vulnerability, Truth, and Ethics of the Surface - Christine Hentschel
    • 19 The Time of and Temporal (Un)Civility of the City: MENA Urban Insurgencies and Revolutions - Anna M. Agathangelou
    • 20 Violent Infrastructures, Places of Conflict: Urban Order in Divided Cities - Wendy Pullan
    • PART VII PROVISIONALITY: INFRASTRUCTURE AND INCREMENTALISM
    • 21 The Majority-world and the Politics of Everyday Living in Southeast Asia - AbdouMaliq Simone
    • 22 Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning: Reflections from Mumbai and Kampala - Colin McFarlane
    • 23 Infrastructure Deficits and Potential in African Cities - Katherine Hyman and Edgar Pieterse
    • PART VIII MOBILITY: RE-BORDERING AND DE-BORDERING
    • 24 City of Migrants - Ash Amin
    • 25 The Migrant Street - Suzanne Hall, Robin Finlay and Julia King
    • 26 Rethinking Border Cities: In-between Spaces, Unequal Actors and Stretched Mobilities across the China–Southeast Asia Borderland - Xiangming Chen and Curtis Stone
    • 27 Re-bordering Camp and City: ‘Race’, Space and Citizenship in Dhaka - Victoria Redclift
    • 28 The Essences of Multiculture: A Sensory Exploration of an Inner-City Street Market - Alex Rhys-Taylor
    • PART IX CIVILITY: CONTESTATION AND ENCOUNTER
    • 29 The Contradictions of Urban Public Space: The View from London and New York - David J. Madden
    • 30 The Public Life of Social Capital - Talja Blokland
    • 31 Johannesburg–Lagos: From the Speculative to the Littoral City - Sarah Nuttall
    • PART X DESIGN: SPECULATION AND IMAGINATION
    • 32 The Public Realm - Richard Sennett
    • 33 Urban Design: Beyond Architecture at Scale - Rahul Mehrotra
    • 34 Towards a Minor Global Architecture at Lamu, Kenya - Lindsay Bremner
    • 35 Forensic Architecture: Political Practice, Activism, Aesthetics - Eyal Weizman
    • 36 Designing Infrastructure - Keller Easterling
    • 37 A Latecomer Imagines the City - William Mann