Title Locating right to the city in the global south / edited by Tony Roshan Samara, Shenjing He and Guo Chen

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages) Series Routledge Studies in Human Geography Routledge studies in human geography. Contents Locating Right to the City in the Global South; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: Locating Right to the City in the Global South; Part I A city divided against itself; 1 Towards the right to the city in informal settlements; 2 Cities without slums in Morocco? New modalities of urban government and the bidonville as a neoliberal assemblage; 3 The divisive nature of neoliberal urban renewal in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; 4 Greening dispossession: environmental governance and socio-spatial transformation in Yixing, China Part II Governance and cosmopolitanism: escaping the South5 Urban governance, mega-projects and scalar transformations in China and India; 6 Bourgeois environmentalism, leftist development and neoliberal urbanism in the City of Joy; 7 Public space versus tableau: the right-to-the-city paradox in neoliberal Bogotá, Colombia; 8 Resisting the neoliberalization of space in Mexico City; 9 City ghosts: the haunted struggles for downtown Durban and Berlin Neukölln; Part III Governance and counter-governance: the shape of urban conflict and the urban future 10 Insurgency and institutionalized social participation in local-level urban planning: the case of PAC comuna, Santiago de Chile, 2003-511 Distinguishing the right kind of city: contentious urban middle classes in Argentina, Brazil and Turkey; 12 Bloggers' right to Cairo's real and virtual spaces of protest; Afterword: re-engaging with transnational urbanism; Index Summary Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely recognized as central to many of the most pressing challenges facing the world, there is a need for a deeper understanding of cities of the South on their own terms. Locating Right to the City in the Global South marks an innovative and far reaching effort to document and make sense of u Notes Print version record Subject Urbanization -- Southern Hemisphere Urbanization -- Developing countries Sociology, Urban -- Southern Hemisphere Sociology, Urban -- Developing countries Urban policy -- Southern Hemisphere Urban policy -- Developing countries SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. Sociology, Urban Urban policy Urbanization Developing countries Southern Hemisphere Form Electronic book Author Samara, Tony Roshan. He, Shenjing. Chen, Guo ISBN 9781136201868 1136201866

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