Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South

Garth Myers

doi:10.46692/9781529204469

Rethinking Urbanism

Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South

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Garth Myers

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: March 2021
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781529204469
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529204469

Subjects:: Sociology of Gender, Art, Architecture, Sociology

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This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism by using a wide range of case studies from lesser studied cities across the Global South and Global North to present evidence for the need to reconstruct our understanding of who and what makes urban environments. Myers explores the global hierarchy of cities, the criteria for positioning within these hierarchies and the successes of various policymaking approaches designed specifically to boost a city's ranking. Engaging heavily with postcolonial studies and Global South thinking, he shows how cities construct one another's spaces and calls for a new understanding of planetary urbanism that moves beyond Western-centric perspectives.

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Rethinking Urbanism

Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vii

List of Acronyms
pp viii-ix

Glossary of Foreign Terms
pp x-xi

Acknowledgments
pp xii-xiv

Preface
pp xv-xxii

Introduction: Rethinking Urbanism from the South
pp 1-22

1 - Southern Processes of Planetary Urbanization in Hartford
pp 23-48

2 - Villages in the City: Patterns of Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, Dakar, and Zanzibar
pp 49-76

3 - The Useful and Ornamental Landscapes of British (Post)colonialism
pp 77-104

4 - Submarine Urbanism: Cities People Make in ‘the Here and the Elsewhere’
pp 105-130

5 - ‘The Whole World Is Made in China’: Products and Infrastructures of Dis/connection
pp 131-154

6 - Urban Politics and Policy in a Southern Urban Planet
pp 155-178

Epilogue
pp 179-182

References
pp 183-220

Index
pp 221-227

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