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Author Ward, Kevin

Title The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (667 pages)
Series Routledge International Handbooks Ser
Routledge International Handbooks Ser
Contents Cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 Spaces of urban politics: an introduction; Part I: Approaching the space(s) of urban politics; 2 Here, there and everywhere: rethinking the urban of urban politics; 3 Place-based or place-positioned? framing and making the spaces of; 4 Ambivalence of the urban commons; 5 The smart state as utopian space for urban politics; Part II: Spaces of economic development; 6 Pro-growth urban politics and the inner workings of public-private partnerships
7 The urban politics of strategic coupling in global production networks8 The sky is not the limit: negotiating height and density in Toronto's condominium boom; 9 Digital technologies and reconfiguration of urban space; Part III: Spaces of the environment and nature; 10 Climate science and the city: consensus, calculation and security in Seattle, Washington; 11 Democratizing the production of urban environments: working in, against and beyond the state, from durban to berlin; 12 Politics of urban gardening; 13 Just green spaces of urban politics: a pragmatist approach
14 From sustainability to resilience: the hidden costs of recent socio-environmental change in cities of the global north15 Transforming Rainey Street: the decoupling of equity from environment in austin's smart growth agenda; Part IV: Spaces of governing and planning; 16 Cities on a grand scale: instant urbanism at the start of the twenty-first century; 17 Urbanization, planning and the possibility of being post-growth; 18 Troubled buildings, distressed markets: the urban governance of the US foreclosure crisis
19 Housing the banlieue in global times: french public housing and spaces between neoliberalization and hybridizationPart V: Spaces of labour; 20 Roll-against neoliberalism and labour organizing in the post-2008 crisis; 21 Urbanization as a bordering process: non-citizen labour and precarious construction work in the greater Toronto area; 22 Organizing the ruins: the thin institutional geography of labour in the US Midwest; 23 Mobilities and moralities of domestic work in indonesian cities; 24 Street work as a key site of urban politics
25 Urban informality and the new politics of precarity: day labourer activism in the USAPart IV: Spaces of living; 26 The political spaces of urban poverty management; 27 Urban community gardens as new spaces of living; 28 Envisioning liveability and do-it-together urban development; 29 Infrastructural citizenship: spaces of living in cape Town, South Africa; 30 The politics of urban agriculture: sustainability, governance and contestation; 31 Retroactive utopia: class and the urbanization of self-management in poland; Part VII: Spaces of circulation
Notes 32 Circulating risks: coastal cities and the spectre of climate change risk
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Subject City planning-Cross-cultural studies
Municipal government-Cross-cultural studies
Urban policy-Cross-cultural studies
Urban renewal-Cross-cultural studies
Urbanization-Political aspects-Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Jonas, Andrew E. G
Miller, Byron
Wilson, David
ISBN 9781317495017
1317495012