Cities of the Global South Reader

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List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Editors' Introduction to the Volume PART I THE CITY EXPERIENCED Lives: Stories from Tehran Ali Madanipour PART II MAKING THE THIRD WORLD CITY Section 1 Historical Underpinnings Editors' Introduction Colonialism and Urban Anthony D. King Interlinked Doreen Massey Section 2 and Editors' Introduction Development and the City Michael Goldman Cities, or a World of Ordinary Cities? Jennifer Robinson PART III THE CITY LIVED Section 3 Migratory Fields Editors' Introduction Township Politics Mzwanele Mayekiso Urbanity of Movement: Dynamic Frontiers in Contemporary Africa Abdoumaliq Simone Migration and Privatization of Space and Power in Late Socialist China Li Zhang Section 4 Urban Economy Editors' Introduction Working in the Streets of Cali, Colombia: Survival Strategy, Necessity, or Unavoidable Evil? Ray Bromley Anchoring Transnational Flows: Hypermodern Spaces in the Sudeshna Mitra Section 5 Housing Editors' Introduction International Policy for Urban Housing Markets in the South since 1945 Richard Harris Women and Self-Help Housing Projects: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis and Policy-Making Caroline O.N. Moser Suburbanization of Jakarta: A Concurrence of Economics and Michael Leaf PART IV THE CITY ENVIROMENT Section 6 Basic Urban Services Editors' Introduction Environmental Problems of Third World Cities: A Issue Ignored? Jorge E. Hardoy and David Satterthwaite Victims, Villains and Fixers: The Urban Environment and Johannesburg's Poor Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell Formalizing the Informal? The Transformation of Cairo's Refuse Collection System Ragui Assaad Section 7 Urban Editors' Introduction Transport Policy as if People and the Environment Mattered: Pedestrian Accessibility is the First Step Madhav G. Badami Kinshasa and Its (Im)material Infrastructure Filip De Boeck and Marie-Francoise Plissart 'Going South' with the Starchitects: Urbanist Ideology in the Emirati City Ahmed Kanna Section 8 Cities at Risk Editors' Introduction (with Andrew Rumbach) Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the Transformation of the Capital Diane E. Davis Disruption by Design: Urban and Political Stephen Graham Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power, and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi Amita Baviskar Climate Dangers and Atoll Countries Jon Barnett and W. Neil Adger PART V PLANNED INTERVENTIONS AND CONTESTATIONS Section 9 Governance Editors' Introduction Spaces, New Contests: Appropriating Decentralization for Political Change in Bolivia Ben Kohl and Linda Farthing Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics Arjun Appadurai Sovereignty: Crisis, Humanitarianism, and the Condition of 21st Century Sovereignty Michael Mascarenhas Section 10 Participation Editors' Introduction Citizens of Porto Alegre Gianpaolo Baiocchi Voices? Whose Choices? Refl ections on Gender and Participatory Andrea Cornwall Section 11 Urban Editors' Introduction Squatters and the State: The Dialectics between Social Integration and Social Change (Case Studies in Lima, Mexico, and Santiago de Chile) Manuel Castells Global Mobility, Shifting Borders and Urban Citizenship Michael Peter Smith and Luis Eduardo Guarnizo Cyberactivism and Citizen Mobilization in the Streets of Cairo Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn Section 12 The Transfer of Knowledge and Policy Editors' Introduction Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization Ananya Roy International Best Practice, Enabling Frameworks and the Policy Process: A South African Case Study Richard Tomlinson Copyright information Index

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