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OverviewDrawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are not isolated objects of study; rather, they are dynamic, global–local assemblages of policies, practices, and ideas. Through empirical examples from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, contributors bring to light the methodological challenges that researchers face in the study of an urban–global, territorial–relational conceptualization of cities and suggest new approaches to understanding urbanism in a networked world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eugene McCann , Kevin Ward , Allan Cochrane , Doreen MasseyPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9780816656288ISBN 10: 0816656282 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 07 April 2011 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsForeword, Allan Cochrane Introduction. Urban Assemblages: Territories, Relations, Practices, and Power, Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward 1. A Counterhegemonic Relationality of Place, Doreen Massey 2. The Spaces of Circulating Knowledge: City Strategies and Global Urban Governmentality, Jennifer Robinson 3. Creative Moments: Working Culture, Through Municipal Socialism and Neoliberal Urbanism, Jamie Peck 4. Policies in Motion and in Place: The Case of Business Improvement Districts, Kevin Ward 5. Points of Reference: Knowledge of Elsewhere in the Politics of Urban Drug Policy, Eugene McCann 6. The Urban Political Pathology of Emerging Infectious Disease in the Age of the Global City, Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali 7. Airports, Territoriality, and Urban Governance, Donald McNeill Conclusion. Cities Assembled: Space, Neoliberalization, (re)Territorialization, and Comparison, Kevin Ward and Eugene McCann Acknowledgments Contributors IndexReviews""At the core of this book is the recognition that far and near no longer be taken for granted. This makes it possible to explore geographies of responsibility as they stretch across space, highlighting linkages that are otherwise rather too easy to avoid. It also makes it possible to explore the ways in which apparently distant phenomena can be drawn in by political actors to reinforce their position, to develop political initiatives, resolve or generate political controversy, and build political power and authority."" —Allan Cochrane, from the Foreword At the core of this book is the recognition that far and near no longer be taken for granted. This makes it possible to explore geographies of responsibility as they stretch across space, highlighting linkages that are otherwise rather too easy to avoid. It also makes it possible to explore the ways in which apparently distant phenomena can be drawn in by political actors to reinforce their position, to develop political initiatives, resolve or generate political controversy, and build political power and authority. --Allan Cochrane, from the Foreword <p> At the core of this book is the recognition that far and near no longer be taken for granted. This makes it possible to explore geographies of responsibility as they stretch across space, highlighting linkages that are otherwise rather too easy to avoid. It also makes it possible to explore the ways in which apparently distant phenomena can be drawn in by political actors to reinforce their position, to develop political initiatives, resolve or generate political controversy, and build political power and authority. --Allan Cochrane, from the Foreword Author InformationEugene McCann is associate professor of geography at Simon Fraser University. Kevin Ward is professor of human geography at the University of Manchester. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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