Full Description
This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of the diversity of contemporary geographical research on cities and urbanization. It demonstrates the vibrancy of current research, and the exciting future of the field. Bringing together different philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the study of the city and the urban, chapters incorporate elements from different disciplines with international perspectives to create an extensive reference on contemporary urban geography research.
The Handbook of Urban Geography consists of thirty chapters written by the leading experts and recognized specialists in the field. Organized into seven parts, this Handbook explores recent theories and methodologies, urban networks, redevelopment, inequality, socialities in the city, urban politics, and sustainability. Recognizing the interdisciplinary nature of the field, contributing authors are from across disciplinary boundaries, expanding the horizons for future geography research.
Researchers and academics in geography, urban studies, and related disciplines will find this Handbook offers succinct overviews of recent developments in the literature. Graduate and undergraduate students will also find this an accessible and useful reference work.
Contents
Contents:
Preface
Introduction to the Handbook of Urban Geography
Tim Schwanen
PART I URBAN THEORIES AND METHODS
2. Worlding cities and comparative urbanism
Laura Cesafsky and Kate Derickson
3. Urban political ecologies of and in the city
Joshua J. Cousins and Joshua Newell
4. Urban cosmopolitics
Anders Blok and Ignacio Farías
5. Big data and the city
Matthew Zook, Taylor Shelton and Ate Poorthuis
PART II URBAN NETWORKS
6. Multiple geographies of global urban connectivity as measured in the interlocking network model
Ben Derudder and Peter J. Taylor
7. Inside mobile urbanism: cities and policy mobilities
Cristina Temenos, Tom Baker and Ian R. Cook
8. Metropolitan mobilities: transnational urban labour markets
Cathy McIlwaine and Megan Ryburn
9. Refugee mobility across networks and cities
Ilse Van Liempt and Francesco Vecchio
10. Urban infrastructures: four tensions and their effects
Tim Schwanen and Denver V. Nixon
PART III URBAN REDEVELOPMENT
11. Emerging city regions: urban expansion, transformation and discursive construction
Markus Hesse
12. The cultural economy in cities
Tom Hutton
13. Urban regeneration through culture
Jonathan Ward and Phil Hubbard
14. Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism
Andrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin
15. Terrorism, risk and the quest for urban resilience
Jon Coaffee
PART IV URBAN INEQUALITIES
16. Urban inequality
Chris Hamnett
17. Segregation: a multi-contextual and multi-faceted phenomenon in stratified societies
Masayoshi Oka and David W. S. Wong
18. Neighbourhood effects on social outcomes
Sako Musterd, Roger Andersson and George Galster
19. Gentrification and displacement: urban inequality in cities of late capitalism
Agustín Cocola-Gant
20. Urban informatics and e-governance
Barney Warf
PART V URBAN SOCIALITIES
21. Sociality, materiality and the city
Sophie Watson
22. Spaces of encounter: learning to live together in superdiverse cities
Nick Schuermans
23. Children's geographies: encounters and experiences
Peter Kraftl
PART VI URBAN POLITICS
24. Exploring insurgent urban mobilizations: from urban social movements to urban political movements?
Lazaros Karaliotas and Erik Swyngedouw
25. Urban governance: re-thinking top-down and bottom-up power relations in the wake of neo-liberalisation
Mike Raco and Sonia Freire-Trigo
26. The right to the city: theoretical outline and reflections on migrants' activism in post-reform urban China
Junxi Qian and Shenjing He
27. Contextualizing neighbourhood activism: spatial solidarity in the city
Katherine B. Hankins and Deborah G. Martin
PART VII URBAN SUSTAINABILITIES
28. Urban sustainability transitions
Jonathan Rutherford
29. Eco-cities
Robert Cowley
30. The governance of climate change in urban areas
Vanesa Castán Broto
Index
