Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction (Critical Introductions to Geography)

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Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Approaching the City 1.1 Introduction Bright lights, big city Academic approaches 1.2 Being Geographical, Being Urbanist Defining “the urban” as an object of study 1.3 Approaching Cities as Processes: Urbanization and Development, Urbanism, and Planning Urbanization and development Urbanism Planning Summary 1.4 Urban Geography: Foundational Approaches Before there was Urban Geography: The Chicago School Urban geography, from the Chicago School to the quantitative revolution 1.5 Conclusion: Building on our Foundations 1.6 Further Reading Chapter 2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Developing Critical Urban Theories and Concepts Gentrification and the “rent gap” as critical concepts Being critical by combining the abstract and the concrete 2.3 Social Relevance and Public Action Public urban geographies and the right to the city Occupying urban space and urban political discourse 2.4 Ordinary Urbanism in a World of Cities Critical geographies beyond the academy Critical geographies beyond the global North: Ordinariness, difference,and decentering urban theory 2.5 Positively Different, Positively Critical 2.6 Further Reading Chapter 3 Production, Economy, and the City 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Urbanization and the Regional Dynamics of the Production System Accumulation, urbanization, and capitalist development Urban development under mass production 3.3 Patterns and Processes of Urban and Regional Development after Fordism 3.4 Globalization as regional urbanization Uneven regional development in the United Kingdom Racism and uneven urban development: the case of redlining 3.5 Gentrification: The Economic Revival of the Inner City? 3.6 Summary and Conclusions 3.7 Further Reading Chapter 4 A World of Cities 4.1 Introduction 4.2 There is Nothing New About Global Cities 4.3 Cities in the Contemporary World: The Global Cities Literature Economic command, control, and connection, post-1970 Specifying “globalness”: Advanced producer services and the command and control of the global economy Measuring and mapping command, control, and connections 4.4 Beyond a “Citadel Geography”: The Critique of the Dominant Global Cities Approach 4.5 Toward Critical Geographies of Ordinary Urbanism: Researching a World of Cities Ordinary urbanism on the move 4.6 Conclusion 4.7 Further Reading Chapter 5 Labor and the City 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Why your Labor Matters: Making a Living in the City 5.3 The Control and Segmentation of Labor in the Industrial City The control and segregation of labor in the new international division of labor 5.4 The Urban Labor Market: Dynamic Dependencies Between Employers and Workers 5.5 Welfare-to-Work and the Rise of Contingent Labor in the City 5.6 Resisting Urban Economic Change: Labor and Community Coalitions Contesting deindustrialization in Chicago Living wage campaigns in London 5.7 Summary and Conclusion 5.8 Further Reading Chapter 6 The City and Social Reproduction 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Defining the Gendered Spaces of Social Reproduction Women’s work, love, and the social reproduction of capitalism 6.3 Social Reproduction and Urban Form Social reproduction and urban form in Kolkata, India 6.4 Changing Spaces of Social Reproduction The case of public housing in the United States The case of undocumented migrant life in the United States The case of structural adjustment in Kingston, Jamaica 6.5 Summary 6.6 Further Reading Chapter 7 Governing the City The State, Urban Planning, and Politics 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Capitalist Urbanization: Planning, Social Provision, and the Housing Question The provision of housing 7.3 Urban Entrepreneurialism and the New Urban Politics Entrepreneurial urban policies 7.4 Suburban Development and Metropolitan Political Fragmentation Edge cities and postsuburban space Gated communities 7.5 De Facto Urban Policy and the Rise of City-Regionalism 7.6 Summary and Conclusions 7.7 Further Reading Chapter 8 Experiencing Cities 8.1 Introduction 8.2 What is “Experience”? Social difference and power 8.3 Social Space, City Space Gentrification Is the “ghetto” your home? Homelessness Youth geographies and consumption spaces 8.4 Is there an Urban Identity? 8.5 Emotions and City Life 8.6 Summary and Conclusions 8.7 Further Reading Chapter 9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Contemporary Perspectives on Urban Entrepreneurialism 9.3 Who Markets Cities and to Whom? Key Actors and Audiences 9.4 Making the Pitch: The Strategies and Politics of Shaping Urban Identities for the Market Imagineering the built environment as a resource for production and consumption People as resources for production and consumption Managing and policing the Imagineered city The politics of maintaining a city’s image 9.5 Summary and Conclusions 9.6 Further Reading Chapter 10 Nature and Environment in the City 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Nature in the Modern Metropolis Urban metabolism Positive environmentalism Disease, life, and death in the modern city 10.3 Regulating Nature and Environment in the City Regulating the boundaries between city and countryside Re-imagining nature in the entrepreneurial city 10.4 The Urban Sustainability Fix: Towards Low Carbon Cities 10.5 Summary and Conclusion 10.6 Further Reading Chapter 11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Art, Aesthetics, and Urban Space 11.3 Visuality 11.4 The Artistic Mode of Production 11.5 Architecture, Verticality, and the Nation 11.6 Museums and Memorialization 11.7 Summary and Conclusions 11.8 Further Reading Chapter 12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Beyond Mainstream Urban Development Politics 12.3 The Right to the City and the New Urban Commons The right to the city The new urban commons 12.4 The City, Citizenship, and Democracy 12.5 Environmental and Social Justice in the City 12.6 Circuits of Value and Alternative Urban Enterprises 12.7 Summary and Conclusions 12.8 Further Reading Chapter 13 Urban Crises 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Global Financial Crisis and Austerity Urbanism 13.3 Shrinking Cities The effects of shrinkage on urban identity and memory 13.4 National Political Unrest Bangkok, Thailand 13.5 The Urban Carceral Society The carceral society away from prison 13.6 Militarization of the City, Urbanization of the Military 13.7 Summary and Conclusions 13.8 Further Reading Chapter 14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Ways Forward Exploring interconnected urban worlds Looking for new and existing alliances and social movements in the city Rescaling knowledge of the state and citizenship around the city Revealing urban geographies of social reproduction Planning for social and environmental justice in the city 14.3 Final reflections and Conclusions Glossary References Index EULA