Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816656290 ISBN 13 : 9780816656295

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

Synopsis

Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing 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.
The essays in this volume argue for a theorizing of both urban policymaking and place-making that understands them as groups of territorial and relational geographies. It broadens our comprehension of agents of transference, reconceiving how policies are made mobile, and acknowledging the importance of interlocal policy mobility. Through the richness of its empirical examples from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, contributors bring to light the significant methodological challenges that researchers face in the study of an urban-global, territorial-relational conceptualization of cities and suggest productive new approaches to understanding urbanism in a networked world.
Contributors: S. Harris Ali, York U, Toronto; Allan Cochrane, Open U; Roger Keil, York U, Toronto; Doreen Massey, Open U; Donald McNeill, U of Western Sydney; Jamie Peck, U of British Columbia; Jennifer Robinson, University College London.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eugene McCann is associate professor of geography at Simon Fraser University. Kevin Ward is professor of human geography at the University of Manchester.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816656290
• ISBN 13: 9780816656295
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: McCann Eugene, Ward Kevin
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