Overlooked cities : power, politics and knowledge beyond the urban South / Edited by Hanna A Ruszczyk, Erwin Nugraha and Isolde de Villiers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Erwin Nugraha, Isolde de Villiers, Martin Price -- Part 1. Politics and Power in Overlooked Cities. -- Sanxian: Re-/un-thinking Chinese urban hierarchy with a medium-sized city -- The changing logic of urban planning in Nepal: From informal to incremental -- The marginalised centre: Overlooked cities in South Africa's interior -- Debt and developmental impasse in the secondary city: Geographies of municipal finance in Zarqa, Jordan -- Part 2. Production and Negotiation of Knowledge in Overlooked Cities. Intermediate cities as urban innovators: An analysis of disaster risk management in Santa Fe, Argentina, and Manizales, Colombia -- Comparing secondary cities: Holistic evaluation of urban development in Arequipa and Trujillo, Peru -- Post-conflict Dili: An overlooked urbanscape reaching out for development -- Middle cities: The politics of intermediary of Bandar Lampung, Semarang, and Bontang city in Indonesia under climate crisis -- Conclusion.

"Overlooked Cities reflects and impacts the changing landscape of urban studies and geography from the perspective of smaller and more regional cities in the urban South. It critically examines the ways in which cities are uniquely positioned within different urban and knowledge hierarchies. The volume will be of interest to scholars from the disciplines of urban studies, geography, development and anthropology, as well as postgraduate students researching the global South and third year undergraduate students studying cities and urban studies, development and critical thinking"--

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