Rethinking Urbanism
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Rethinking Urbanism

Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
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Rethinking Urbanism

Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South

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This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism by using a wide range of case studies from lesser studied cities across the Global South and Global North to present evidence for the need to reconstruct our understanding of who and what makes urban environments. Myers explores the global hierarchy of cities, the criteria for positioning within these hierarchies and the successes of various policymaking approaches designed specifically to boost a city's ranking. Engaging heavily with postcolonial studies and Global South thinking, he shows how cities construct one another's spaces and calls for a new understanding of planetary urbanism that moves beyond Western-centric perspectives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Acronyms
  8. Glossary of Foreign Terms
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Preface
  11. Introduction: Rethinking Urbanism from the South
  12. 1 Southern Processes of Planetary Urbanization in Hartford
  13. 2 Villages in the City: Patterns of Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, Dakar, and Zanzibar
  14. 3 The Useful and Ornamental Landscapes of British (Post)colonialism
  15. 4 Submarine Urbanism: Cities People Make in ‘the Here and the Elsewhere’
  16. 5 ‘The Whole World Is Made in China’: Products and Infrastructures of Dis/connection
  17. 6 Urban Politics and Policy in a Southern Urban Planet
  18. Epilogue
  19. References
  20. Index