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Rethinking Urbanism : Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South /

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...

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Autor principal: Myers, Garth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Acronyms
  • Glossary of Foreign Terms
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Rethinking Urbanism from the South
  • Southern Processes of Planetary Urbanization in Hartford
  • Villages in the City: Patterns of Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, Dakar, and Zanzibar
  • The Useful and Ornamental Landscapes of British (Post)colonialism
  • Submarine Urbanism: Cities People Make in 'the Here and the Elsewhere'
  • 'The Whole World Is Made in China': Products and Infrastructures of Dis/connection
  • Urban Politics and Policy in a Southern Urban Planet
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index