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Rethinking urbanism : lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South /

This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism that emanate from European and North American cities. Myers uses 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Myers, Garth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Colección:Policy Press scholarship online.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Rethinking Urbanism from the South -- Introduction -- Debates on global and world cities -- The Los Angeles School, Lefebvre and planetary urbanization -- Thinking with 'the South' -- Conclusion -- 1 Southern Processes of Planetary Urbanization in Hartford -- Introduction -- Mapping Hartford as a Southern urbanism -- Indigenous Hartford 
505 8 |a Black and Caribbean transversal planetary Hartford -- People as infrastructure in north and south Hartford -- Conclusion -- 2 Villages in the City: Patterns of Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, Dakar, and Zanzibar -- Introduction -- The other South: planetary urbanization and the Pearl River Delta -- Comparing the patterns in the PRD and Sub-Saharan Africa -- Can this idea be taken elsewhere? -- Conclusion -- 3 The Useful and Ornamental Landscapes of British (Post)colonialism -- Introduction -- Postcolonial urbanism -- Comparing Trinidad and Zanzibar -- The useful and ornamental plants 
505 8 |a RO Williams in service to the British Empire -- Spaces of colonial nature in Port of Spain and Zanzibar -- Alternative landscapes of postcolonial urbanism -- Conclusion -- 4 Submarine Urbanism: Cities People Make in 'the Here and the Elsewhere' -- Introduction -- Translocal urbanism and migration: Glissant's poetic vision -- Port of Spain: jouvay urbanization -- San Juan: 'yo-yo boing' -- Cape Coast: door of return -- Zanzibar: here and elsewhere, a gravel heart -- Conclusion -- 5 'The Whole World Is Made in China': Products and Infrastructures of Dis/connection -- Introduction 
505 8 |a Economic/geographic understandings for intersections of globalization and urbanization -- Chinese FDI and urbanization in Africa -- Chinese infrastructure and people-as-infrastructure in Zanzibar -- African traders in the Pearl River Delta -- Conclusion -- 6 Urban Politics and Policy in a Southern Urban Planet -- Introduction -- Urban politics and policies in flux -- Policy mobilities and city-to-city learning -- Participatory budgeting and bus rapid transit -- Enclave urbanism: new town/city construction and governance -- Sister cities 
505 8 |a Climate change adaptation and urban policy: San Juan and Hurricane Maria -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Zanzibar National Archives -- Public Record Office, Kew, United Kingdom Archives -- Index -- Back Cover 
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