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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Policy Press scholarship online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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