Description
The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways, speaking to new ideas of what constitutes the urban, highlighting empirical explorations and expanding on contributions to policy and design. The handbook is organised around nine key themes, through which familiar analytic categories of race, gender and class, as well as binaries such as the urban/rural, are readdressed. These thematic sections together capture the volatile processes and intricacies of urbanisation that reveal the turbulent nature of our early twenty-first century:
- Hierarchy: Elites and Evictions
- Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment
- Authority: Governance and Mobilisations
- Volatility: Disruption and Adaptation
- Conflict: Vulnerability and Insurgency
- Provisionality: Infrastructure and Incrementalism
- Mobility: Re-bordering and De-bordering
- Civility: Contestation and Encounter
- Design: Speculation and Imagination
This is a provocative, inter-disciplinary handbook for all academics and researchers interested in contemporary urban studies.
Table of Contents
1) Introduction: The Urban Churn - Suzanne Hall, Ricky Burdett
Part 1: Questions of Definition: An Urban Compendium
2) The Global Urban: Difference and Complexity in Urban Studies and the Science of Cities - Jenny Robinson, Sue Parnell
3) Urban Studies and the Postcolonial Encounter - Ananya Roy
4) Elements for a New Epistemology of the Urban - Neil Brenner, Christian Schmid
Part 2: Hierarchy: Elites and Evictions
5) The Elite Habitus in Cities of Accumulation - Mike Savage
6) Reimagining Chinese London - Caroline Knowles, Roger Burrows
7) Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty - Matt Desmond
Part 3: Productivity: Over-investment and Abandonment
8) Global Cities: Places for Researching the Translocal - Saskia Sassen
9) Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure - Alex Schafran
10) Urban Economy and Social Inequality in Productivity: Investment and Abandonment - Fran Tonkiss
11) Ruination and Post-industrial Urban Decline - Alice Mah
Part 4: Authority: Governance and Mobilisations
12) The Political Sociology of Cities and Urbanisation Processes: Social Movements, Inequalities and Governance - Patrick Le Galès
13) Limits to South Africa’s ‘Right to the City’: Prospects For and Beyond Urban Commoning - Patrick Bond
14) Aesthetic Governmentality : Administering the ‘World-Class’ City in Delhi’s Slums - Asher Ghertner
Part 5: Volatility: Disruption and Adaptation
15) Post-Disaster, Recovery and Rebuilding - Kevin Fox Gotham, Wesley Cheek
16) What the Eye Does Not See: The Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi - Amita Baviskar
17) Endangered City: Security and Citizenship in Bogota - Austin Zeiderman
Part 6: Conflict: Vulnerability and Insurgency
18) The European Refugee Crisis in “Our” Cities: Conflict, Vulnerability and Ethics of Surface - Christine Hentschel
19) Temporal (Un)Civility of the City: MENA Urban Insurgencies and Revolutions - Anna M. Agathangelou
20) Violent Infrastructures, Places of Conflict: Urban Order in Divided Cities - Wendy Pullan
Part 7: Provisionality: Infrastructure and Incrementalism
21) The Majority-World and the Politics of Everyday Living in Southeast Asia - AbdouMaliq Simone
22) Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning: Reflections from Mumbai and Kampala - Colin McFarlane
23) Infrastructure Deficits and Potential in African Cities - Edgar Pieterse, Katherine Hyman
Part 8: Mobility: Re-bordering and De-bordering
24) City of Migrants - Ash Amin
25) The Migrant Street - Suzanne Hall, Robin Finlay, Julia King
26) Rethinking Border Cities: In-Between Spaces, Unequal Actors and Stretched Mobility Across the China-Southeast Asia Borderland - Xiangming Chen, Curtis Stone
27) Re-bordering Camp and City: ‘Race’, Space and Citizenship in Dhaka - Victoria Redclift
28) The Essences of Multiculture: A Sensory Exploration of an Inner-city Street Market - Alex Rhys Taylor
Part 9: Civility: Contestation and Encounter
29) The Contradictions of Urban Public Space: The View From London and New York - David Madden
30) The Public Life of Social Capital - Talja Blokland
31) From the Speculative to the Littoral City - Sarah Nuttall
Part 10: Design: Speculation and Imagination
32) The Public Realm - Richard Sennett
33) Urban Design: Beyond Architecture at Scale - Rahul Mehrotra
34) Towards a Minor Global Architecture at Lamu, Kenya - Lindsay Bremner
35) Forensic Architecture: Political Practice, Activism, Aesthetics - Eyal Weizman
36) Designing Infrastructure - Keller Easterling
37) A Latecomer Imagines the City - William Mann
