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A research agenda for cities / edited by John Rennie Short, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Elgar research agendasCopyright date: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017Description: xiii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781785363412 (hbk.)
  • 1785363417
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 307.76 RES.E 010704
Contents:
Contents:1. Introduction to the urban momentJohn Rennie ShortPart I The global city2. The global city and its discontentsYeong-Hyun Kim3. The city of global flows Jonathan V. Beaverstock4. Urban surveillance after the end of globalizationDavid Murakami WoodPart II The lived city5. The queer city Gavin Brown6. Sex and the city: sexuality and urban order/disorderPhil Hubbard, Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash7. Feminism and the urban Linda Peake8. Urban foodways: a research agendaJames FarrerPart III Changes in the city9. Gentrification Elvin Wyly10. SuburbsBernadette Hanlon11. The creative cityTom Hutton 12. Towards more sustainable citiesLisa Benton-Short and Melissa KeeleyPart IV Cities in place13. The urban pulse of the global south: the case of Cali, ColombiaLina Martinez14. The city in BrazilThomas J. Vicino15. Cities in China and India: disjuncture, master-concepts, and comparisonsXufei Ren16. Mobile cities, modelling policies: importing/exporting the Singapore `model' of developmentOrlando Woods and Lily Kong17. The city in sub-Saharan AfricaEdgar Pieterse18. Main trends in contemporary urban studies of the Middle East and North AfricaAhmed Kanna19. Defining and refining the research agenda for Australian cities Rob Freestone, Bill Randolph and Andrew Wheeler20. The post-socialist city: insights from the spaces of radical societal changeOleg Golubchikov Index
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:1. Introduction to the urban momentJohn Rennie ShortPart I The global city2. The global city and its discontentsYeong-Hyun Kim3. The city of global flows Jonathan V. Beaverstock4. Urban surveillance after the end of globalizationDavid Murakami WoodPart II The lived city5. The queer city Gavin Brown6. Sex and the city: sexuality and urban order/disorderPhil Hubbard, Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash7. Feminism and the urban Linda Peake8. Urban foodways: a research agendaJames FarrerPart III Changes in the city9. Gentrification Elvin Wyly10. SuburbsBernadette Hanlon11. The creative cityTom Hutton 12. Towards more sustainable citiesLisa Benton-Short and Melissa KeeleyPart IV Cities in place13. The urban pulse of the global south: the case of Cali, ColombiaLina Martinez14. The city in BrazilThomas J. Vicino15. Cities in China and India: disjuncture, master-concepts, and comparisonsXufei Ren16. Mobile cities, modelling policies: importing/exporting the Singapore `model' of developmentOrlando Woods and Lily Kong17. The city in sub-Saharan AfricaEdgar Pieterse18. Main trends in contemporary urban studies of the Middle East and North AfricaAhmed Kanna19. Defining and refining the research agenda for Australian cities Rob Freestone, Bill Randolph and Andrew Wheeler20. The post-socialist city: insights from the spaces of radical societal changeOleg Golubchikov Index

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