Mobile Urbanism : Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age.
Title:
Mobile Urbanism : Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age.
Author:
McCann, Eugene.
ISBN:
9780816676699
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Series:
Globalization and Community
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction. Urban Assemblages: Territories, Relations, Practices, and Power -- 1 A Counterhegemonic Relationality of Place -- 2 The Spaces of Circulating Knowledge: City Strategies and Global Urban Governmentality -- 3 Creative Moments: Working Culture, through Municipal Socialism and Neoliberal Urbanism -- 4 Policies in Motion and in Place: The Case of Business Improvement Districts -- 5 Points of Reference: Knowledge of Elsewhere in the Politics of Urban Drug Policy -- 6 The Urban Political Pathology of Emerging Infectious Disease in the Age of the Global City -- 7 Airports, Territoriality, and Urban Governance -- Conclusion. Cities Assembled: Space, Neoliberalization, (Re)territorialization, and Comparison -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
"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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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