Overview

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.

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Author:   Suzanne Hall (LSE, UK) ,  Ricky Burdett (LSE, UK)
Publisher:   Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Sage Publications Ltd
Weight:   1.580kg
ISBN:  

9781473907560

ISBN 10:   147390756
Pages:   730
Publication Date:   08 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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In the respected tradition of the SAGE Handbook, this collection brings together the most important urban scholars of out time. Their insightful analyses of the processes, experiences and consequences of urbanization draw upon a diverse array of cities and remind us that the effects of urbanization reach beyond any geographical city limit. This carefully curated collection redefines the interdisciplinary field of urban studies and sets its moral course to meet the challenges of the 21st century. -- Jane M JACOBS Astute and comprehensive, this expertly assembled volume moves through and well beyond the categories that have shaped our current understandings of cities - global and ordinary, northern and southern, formal and informal, civil and conflictual - to reveal the struggles over meaning and access that cut across class, culture, politics, and space. Read together, the pieces vividly capture the brutalities and possibilities of capitalist urban development, honing in on the mobilities and mobilizations - characterized here as the urban churn - that give cities their dynamic character. -- Liza Weinstein This outstanding collection of essays, reflections, provocations and excavations of the future is both timely and appropriate. Appropriate, since it asks the reader to re-assess the way in which contemporary urbanity is both familiar and not, depending on one's location and perspective, and timely since the editors' bold assertion of a new taxonomy of issues from 'authority' to 'civility' dissolves the decades-old hierarchies between First- and Third World, developed and developing, the West and the Rest. Individual essays aside, its most important contribution to the exploding field(s) of scholarship concerned with how we understand, shape, influence and inhabit our increasingly urban world is to draw threads across 'profoundly asymmetrical' lines of power, race, class and culture that acknowledge difference without flattening it, or without aspiring to 'models for the whole world', yet, at the same time, asserts the oft-buried capacity in all of us to connect, share, dialogue and learn from each other. 'Design' here is less concerned with a conventional reading of form/performance and aesthetics and more preoccupied with our ability to imagine new ways of reading and engaging the world around us. In their own words, a 'churningly' fine collection that manages to be poetic, provocative and pedagogically compelling all at once. -- Lesley Lokko Look no further. Whether interested in the latest conceptual turn in defining the urban, or in the importance of transcending disciplinary boundaries in the study of cities, this handbook has it all. It is a superb collection that contains a remarkable set of essays from the world's leading urbanists whose combined wisdom is essential to anyone seeking to understand the 21st century city. As noted in the editors' introduction, this is not your standard urban sociology monograph. It is a call to consider new methods of action and imagination, built on a scholarly embrace of ethnographic and analytical thinking and brought to life through the careful reexamination of what the city is and might become in times of rapid and disruptive change. Adroitly organized around a range of thematic topics and scales of inquiry that shed light on timely issues such as immigration, risk, eviction, and conflict as well as more enduring concerns like governance, globalization, and investment, the main challenge for the reader will be to absorb it all. Yet, the editors' abiding concern with the socio-spatial and experiential contours of the urban, and their clear appreciation for the impact of design on the production and consumption of the city, provide an opportunity to tie together the various sections and chapters in unique and provocative ways. Although there are many worthy urban collections available on the market today, hands-down this is the one I'd want my students to read and my colleagues to discuss. -- Diane E. Davis

Astute and comprehensive, this expertly assembled volume moves through and well beyond the categories that have shaped our current understandings of cities - global and ordinary, northern and southern, formal and informal, civil and conflictual - to reveal the struggles over meaning and access that cut across class, culture, politics, and space. Read together, the pieces vividly capture the brutalities and possibilities of capitalist urban development, honing in on the mobilities and mobilizations - characterized here as the urban churn - that give cities their dynamic character. -- Liza Weinstein This outstanding collection of essays, reflections, provocations and excavations of the future is both timely and appropriate. Appropriate, since it asks the reader to re-assess the way in which contemporary urbanity is both familiar and not, depending on one's location and perspective, and timely since the editors' bold assertion of a new taxonomy of issues from 'authority' to 'civility' dissolves the decades-old hierarchies between First- and Third World, developed and developing, the West and the Rest. Individual essays aside, its most important contribution to the exploding field(s) of scholarship concerned with how we understand, shape, influence and inhabit our increasingly urban world is to draw threads across 'profoundly asymmetrical' lines of power, race, class and culture that acknowledge difference without flattening it, or without aspiring to 'models for the whole world', yet, at the same time, asserts the oft-buried capacity in all of us to connect, share, dialogue and learn from each other. 'Design' here is less concerned with a conventional reading of form/performance and aesthetics and more preoccupied with our ability to imagine new ways of reading and engaging the world around us. In their own words, a 'churningly' fine collection that manages to be poetic, provocative and pedagogically compelling all at once. -- Lesley Lokko Look no further. Whether interested in the latest conceptual turn in defining the urban, or in the importance of transcending disciplinary boundaries in the study of cities, this handbook has it all. It is a superb collection that contains a remarkable set of essays from the world's leading urbanists whose combined wisdom is essential to anyone seeking to understand the 21st century city. As noted in the editors' introduction, this is not your standard urban sociology monograph. It is a call to consider new methods of action and imagination, built on a scholarly embrace of ethnographic and analytical thinking and brought to life through the careful reexamination of what the city is and might become in times of rapid and disruptive change. Adroitly organized around a range of thematic topics and scales of inquiry that shed light on timely issues such as immigration, risk, eviction, and conflict as well as more enduring concerns like governance, globalization, and investment, the main challenge for the reader will be to absorb it all. Yet, the editors' abiding concern with the socio-spatial and experiential contours of the urban, and their clear appreciation for the impact of design on the production and consumption of the city, provide an opportunity to tie together the various sections and chapters in unique and provocative ways. Although there are many worthy urban collections available on the market today, hands-down this is the one I'd want my students to read and my colleagues to discuss. -- Diane E. Davis

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