Settlement, urban and rural geography Books

Book Synopsis Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural ‘home’ places, urban suburbs and informal settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the outcome of migration, and argues that continuity in the fundamental organising principles of cultural life – in this case centred on kinship and an ‘island home’ – is significantly more important for urban and rural lives than the transformative impacts of migration and urbanisation.Trade Review “Petrou provides a highly useful and informed work on the experiences of Paamese over three decades, looking at both continuities and changes. The specific attention she gives to gender differences in the way these experiences unfold, as well as to the careful transcription of Paamese’s ambivalent feelings and the detailed analysis of their economic opportunities and situations, makes If Everyone Returned, the Island Would Sink a great read not only for scholars working on urbanization and migration issues in what she calls the ‘Global South’, but also for everyone interested in Melanesian contemporary lives and ethnographies.” • Pacific History “This is an excellent study of rural/urban migration in the Western Pacific… well-written, free of jargon while scholarly in its approach. It is unique in presenting longitudinal, comparative data.” • Martha Macintyre, The University of MelbourneTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Urbanisation and Migration: Rapid Change but Enduring Patterns Chapter 2. Subsistence Realities, Material Dreams: Rural Lives and Livelihoods Chapter 3. It’s Like We Live in Town Already: Island Social Organisation Chapter 4. The Everyday Ordinariness of Mobility: Persistent Patterns of Rural Outmigration Chapter 5. I Just Came to Visit My Kin: The Evolution of Urban Permanence Chapter 6. Friends, Lovers and Stranger Danger: Urban Social Worlds Chapter 7. Living on Money: Urban Economic Life Conclusion. Fluidity and Flexibility: A Generation of Paamese Migration and Urban Experiences Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Arctic and northern communities, livelihoods and land use depend heavily on natural resources. Decision-making processes around the use of natural resources are often contested and given their importance to these communities the participation of local stakeholders is vital. This timely book presents practices that have been developed with key stakeholders to improve the collection and utilization of locally relevant knowledge in land use planning. Chapters illustrate how indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) can be made spatially explicit by using, for example, participatory GIS. Focusing on countries including Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Ireland, Finland, Norway and Sweden, this book pays particular attention to the recognized challenges of these regions, including the relationships between local and national actors and indigenous and other local populations.Sharing Knowledge for Land Use Management will be a key resource for students and researchers of geography, planning, regional and tourism studies as well as planning authorities and consultants, offering new ideas and tools for the inclusion of local knowledge in decision making processes.Trade Review‘The importance of public participation in decision-making has for decades been acknowledged, but cost-effective tools are unfortunately still lacking. The book emphasizes opportunities offered by the rapid technical development within geographical information systems (GIS) that greatly facilitate public participation and co-operation between the public, academics and political decision makers. The book is well organized, with easily readable texts for non-experts, and is highly recommended for anyone interested in improving social equity in decision-making.’ -- Guðrún Pétursdóttir, University of Iceland‘Increasingly, researchers working in northern contexts are required to bring different groups and types of knowledge together to better inform policies, practices, and decisions related to natural resource governance. Many efforts thus far have proven unsuccessful. The value of this book is that it demonstrates effective methods for generating shared knowledge, illustrating ways that both western scientists and indigenous peoples can work together using contemporary approaches to foster common interests and advance a sustainable and shared future.’ -- Maureen G. Reed, University of Saskatchewan, Canada‘Lapland in Finland, with Rovaniemi as its capital, has become an important international tourism destination in recent years due to its natural environment, clean air, tourism activities and northern lights. This edited volume is very timely in that it offers great ideas and tools to address the ever more urgent issue of developing tourism in a sustainable way and reconciling it with other land use modes.’ -- Esko Lotvonen, Mayor of Rovaniemi, Lapland, FinlandTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiv 1 Building shared knowledge capital to support natural resource governance in the northern periphery: concepts and challenges 1 John McDonagh, Seija Tuulentie and Ari Nikula 2 Indigenous and local knowledge in land use planning: a comparative analysis 16 Minna Turunen, Inkeri Markkula, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Hans Holt Poulsen, Per Sandström and Stefan Sandström 3 Whose knowledge is it anyway? Apprehensions around sharing knowledge of natural resources in the northern peripheries 29 Seija Tuulentie, Gun Lidestav, Inkeri Markkula, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Marie Søndergaard and Minna Turunen 4 Traditional knowledge and natural resource governance: a gender perspective 42 Gun Lidestav, Ragnhei›ur Bogadóttir, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Eva-Lisa Myntti, Per Sandström and Stefan Sandström 5 Who is the public and where is participation in participatory GIS and public participation GIS 55 Stefan Sandström, Per Sandström and Ari Nikula 6 PPGIS for a better understanding of people’s values: experiences from Finland and the Faroe Islands 70 Ari Nikula, Minna Turunen, Ragnhei›ur Bogadóttir, Inkeri Markkula and Sini Kantola 7 The contradictory role of tourism in the northern peripheries: overcrowding, overtourism and the importance of tourism for rural development 86 Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Seija Tuulentie, Gestur Hovgaard, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Marita Svartá, Hans Holt Poulsen and Marie Søndergaard 8 ‘Nothing is sustainable the way it is’ – reflections on local sustainability perceptions and interpretations 100 John McDonagh, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Louise Weir, Marie Mahon, Maura Farrell and Therese Conway 9 ‘There’s no transfer of knowledge, it’s all one way’ – the importance of integrating local knowledge and fostering knowledge sharing practices in natural resource utilisation 116 John McDonagh, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Louise Weir, Marie Mahon, Maura Farrell, Johannes Welling and Therese Conway 10 ‘Who knew digitizing and dialogue could change the course of reindeer herding rights? We know, now’: building bridges between knowledge systems and over highways 130 Per Sandström, Eva-Lisa Myntti, Stefan Sandström, Niklas Jonsson, Gun Lidestav and Tobias Jonsson 11 Social licence to operate: is local acceptance of economic development enhancing social sustainability? 144 Leena Suopajärvi, Arvid Viken, Gaute Svensson and Sanna Pettersson 12 Participation, local knowledge and decision-making: challenging the boundaries, realizing the opportunities 160 John McDonagh and Seija Tuulentie Index 171

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Book SynopsisProviding an in-depth exploration of the complexities of densification policy and processes, this book brings the important experiences of densification in Johannesburg into conversation with a range of cities in Africa, the BRICS countries and the Global North. It moves beyond the divisive debate over whether densification is good or bad, adding nuance and complexity to the calls from multilateral organisations for densification as a key urban strategy. Using empirical work in a comparative frame, Densifying the City? examines how densification policies and processes have manifested often in unanticipated or contrary ways. It offers important insights into resident-led densification and the processes and motivations that drive these activities. This will be an invigorating read for urban studies and urban planning scholars looking to move beyond a basic understanding of densifying cities to understanding the strategy behind it and its successes. Urban policy makers will also appreciate the use of key case studies throughout the book.Trade Review'Densification is increasingly positioned as vital to cities and the global urban future. This collection of cases, from across the urban world, offers an invaluable critique of the politics and geographies of densification, and provides a set of progressive routes forward.' --Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK'Urban densification has long been one of those enduring ''wicked problems'' which has long perplexed urban planners and policy experts. By offering a balanced analysis that unpacks the costs and benefits of compact cities, the contributors critically engage with the reigning conventional wisdom that densification is a central ingredient for urban sustainability and smart growth.' --Martin J. Murray, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: SECTION A DENSIFICATION IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 1 Thinking density through selected international case cities 2 Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Margot Rubin and Alexandra Appelbaum 2 Thinking densification from and through Johannesburg 17 Alison Todes, Philip Harrison, Margot Rubin and Alexandra Appelbaum 3 Density, informality and the urban premium 40 Ivan Turok 4 The challenges of planning and managing urban density in the city of São Paulo, Brazil 52 Anderson Kazuo Nakano 5 Successes and challenges of densification strategies in Curitiba, Brazil 63 Garth Klein and Priscila Zanon 6 Form, function, density: understanding the legacies of a century of modernist planning and urbanisation in Istanbul 73 Murat Üçoğlu, K. Murat Güney and Roger Keil 7 Densities in Delhi, India: evolution, process and policies 83 PSN Rao 8 Drivers of density change: the case of Beijing, China 93 Philip Harrison and Yan Yang 9 Vibrancy and instability: grappling with tension in the densification trajectory of Nairobi’s multi-storey tenement districts 103 Marie Huchzermeyer 10 Understanding density in unplanned and unregulated settlements of peri-urban Africa: a case study of Maputo, Mozambique 114 Paul Jenkins and Johan Mottelson 11 Government policies and accelerating densification in Sydney 125 Glen Searle SECTION B EXPERIENCING DENSIFICATION IN JOHANNESBURG 12 Densification through intensification: sub-letting in the inner city of Johannesburg 136 Tanya Zack, Sarah Charlton, Rirhandzu Khoza, Kwena Letsoalo and Chloé Malavolti 13 Residential alienation or the right to the city? ‘Rooms’ and ‘spaces’ as a mode of densification in Johannesburg and Cape Town 147 Kayla Brown and Simon Sizwe Mayson 14 Densities, enclaves, and the daily lives of migrants in Johannesburg 159 Khangelani Moyo 15 Urban compounds: densifying bungalows in Johannesburg 168 Kirsten Dörmann 16 Densification processes in comparison: Alexandra and Marlboro South 179 Lindsay Blair Howe 17 Living with strangers: backyarding, density and intimacy in Johannesburg 190 Margot Rubin and Sarah Charlton 18 On the defensive: the residential strategies shaping densification in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs 202 Alexandra Parker and Alexandra Appelbaum 19 Three emerging medium-density housing types in Johannesburg: improving their spatial performance 213 Lone Poulsen and Melinda Silverman SECTION C DENSIFICATION THROUGH TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT: JOHANNESBURG’S CORRIDORS OF FREEDOM 20 Densifying through TOD: international experience with BRT 225 Sylvia Croese 21 Implementing transit-oriented development in Sandton Central: ambitions and realities 235 Miriam Maina 22 Density, access and public transport finance 246 Sean Cooke, Roger Behrens and Mark Zuidgeest 23 The politics of TOD: the case of Johannesburg’s Corridors of Freedom 256 Philip Harrison and Margot Rubin 24 Developers, density and the dreams of the Corridors of Freedom 266 Kirsten Harrison and Alison Todes 25 Proactive rezoning to promote inclusive densification 276 Stuart Denoon-Stevens and Verna Nel Index 284

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book explores smaller towns and cities, places in which the majority of people live, highlighting that these more ordinary places have extraordinary geographies. It focuses on the development of an alternative approach to urban studies and theory that foregrounds smaller cities and towns rather than much larger cities and conurbations.Comparative case studies from Australia, Cambodia, India, Korea, the UK and US provide a rich collection of theoretically informed investigations into smaller urban centres that are connected in complex ways to regional, national and international flows of people, goods, ideas and materials. The book further examines policy development and implementation in smaller towns and cities. Chapters analyse core societal challenges, including economic restructuring, urban decline and renewal, and ageing populations.This is a timely and important book for students of human geography, urban studies, planning, and economic geography, particularly those focusing on cities and economic development. It will also appeal to policymakers and planners seeking insights on current debates reframing urban theory to embrace more ordinary towns and cities.Trade Review'Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies is a call for a more inclusive research agenda centering overlooked places often perceived as less important because they are not exceptionally large, or wealthy, or confronted by exceptional circumstances. Bryson, Kalafsky, and Vanchan have assembled both a compelling argument for studying ordinary places and a collection of international empirical examples. The result is an illustration of how and why studying ordinary places is essential to building a more inclusive research agenda for geography (and more broadly social science).' -- Jennifer Clark, The Ohio State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface: ordinary cities – place, space, time and biographical narratives xii Acknowledgements xvi 1 Ordinary cities, extraordinary geographies: parallax dimensions, interpolations and the scale question 1 John R. Bryson, Ronald V. Kalafsky and Vida Vanchan 2 The progressive city in the neighborhood context 23 George R. Frantz 3 The mechanics of small metropolitan labor markets in the U.S. South: does job growth always drive population growth? 43 Jonathan Kozar and William Graves 4 Examining the exports of smaller southern cities and assessing “borrowed size” 67 Ronald V. Kalafsky 5 (Extra) Ordinary Geelong: state-led urban regeneration and economic revival 84 Louise C. Johnson, Sally Weller and Tom Barnes 6 The infraordinary or the ordinary as extraordinary? Expertise (and not global) production networks and ordinary towns and cities 106 Stephen Williams and John R. Bryson 7 An ordinary but extraordinary city: Siem Reap Angkor, Cambodia 133 Vida Vanchan 8 Resilience and development of a small city in India: Dholpur, Rajasthan 151 Suparna Soni 9 Interconnection between ethnic enclaves in a small city and globalization 164 Kamyoung Kim and Ju-Hyun Bae 10 Beside the seaside: vertical dis-integration, demographic imbalance and adaptation in UK coastal communities 190 Jacob Salder 11 Reframing urban theory: smaller towns and cities, forms of life, embeddedplasticity and variegated urbanism 210 John R. Bryson, Vida Vanchan and Ronald V. Kalafsky Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely Research Agenda explores how to accelerate the creation of sustainable, resilient, safe and prosperous cities. Looking towards the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, it presents an ambitious way forward for researchers, identifying opportunities for transformative change in cities and societies. Global in its outlook, this Research Agenda systematically reviews and critiques existing research on sustainable cities, calling for greater engagement with a diversity of perspectives. It interrogates foundational assumptions in the field and offers reframed perspectives on sustainability. Chapters also explore diverse approaches, actors and domains, locating emerging dynamics and new directions for practitioners. Community empowerment is a key theme, with contributions focusing on how to create socially just urban governance procedures. Examining key case studies from across the world, the book presents innovative suggestions for accelerators of urban transitions, including sharing cities, nature-based solutions, mission-oriented innovation and urban living labs.Combining vital scientific insights with cutting-edge policy and practice recommendations, this Research Agenda will be an essential resource for doctoral students, researchers and scholars seeking to be at the forefront of sustainable cities and communities. Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities 1 Kes McCormick, James Evans, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Niki Frantzeskaki PART I TAKING STOCK 2 Assessing the research on sustainable cities and communities: how to meet the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals? 17 James Evans and Katie Elder 3 Sustainable urbanism is a failed project and what we can do about it 31 Robert Krueger 4 Researching the urban sustainability agenda in India: where to start? 45 Tathagata Chatterji PART II NAVIGATING DYNAMICS 5 Energy communities as accelerators of energy transition in cities 67 Jenny Palm 6 Share and repair in cities: agenda for research and practice on circular urban resilience 79 Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Oksana Mont 7 The need for a systemic approach to informal settlements upgrading 101 Ignacio Loor PART III SHAPING GOVERNANCE 8 Grassroots strategies for environmental governance and circular transitions in cities: lessons from Lagos and Melbourne 113 Olamide Shittu 9 Blessed mess: new modes of thinking, acting, and learning for sustainable urban transformations 129 Andrew Karvonen and Jonas Bylund 10 Climate city contracts? Governing towards climate neutral cities 139 Katherine Shabb, Kes McCormick, Selma Mujkic and Stefan Anderberg PART IV EMBRACING JUSTICE 11 Urban transitions and green space provision: just and green, or just green? 153 Farahnaz Sharifi and Christian (Andi) Nygaard 12 Representing cultural diversity in urban spaces and planning regulations for sustainable cities 169 Fatemeh Shahani 13 Sustainability and the governance of urban green space 181 Md. Badrul Hyder, Angelika Papadopoulos and Wendy Steele PART V REFRAMING PERSPECTIVES 14 The hidden perversity of demand response: one of the building blocks of smart cities 201 Stephanie Pincetl 15 Nature-based urbanism: designing for and with nature for sustainable cities and communities 209 Melissa Pineda-Pinto and Niki Frantzeskaki 16 Regenerative cultures for sustainable cities and communities 229 Katherine Foo Index

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Book SynopsisWritten in a comprehensive yet accessible style, Urban Violence, Resilience and Security investigates the diverse nature of urban violence within Latin America, Asia and Africa. It further analyzes how regular and irregular governing mechanisms can provide human security, despite the presence of chronic violence. The empirically rich and conceptually grounded contributions of established and emerging scholars evaluate the current state and future trajectory of urban development. They also question common explanations of the drivers of violence in urban areas and also provide measured recommendations for improved policy and future governance. Chapters thoroughly examine the opportunities and hazards of focusing on resilience as the only method to improve security and identify governance and policy practices that can move beyond the rhetoric of resilience to evaluate diverse approaches to attaining human security in urban areas of the Global South.This invigorating book will be an excellent resource for academic researchers interested in urban dynamics in the Global South as well as scholars embarking on geography, human security, political science and policy studies. Based on a set of original case studies, policymakers will also benefit from the questions and challenges to the conventional approaches to urban planning and governance that it raises.Trade Review‘Urban Violence, Resilience and Security provides a unique intervention in the study of urban violence in the Global South. Challenging conventional accounts of urban violence modeled after cities in the Global North, contributors provide theoretically sophisticated and empirically-grounded case studies to highlight the myriad and geographically contingent forms of resilience and resistance. A must-read for scholars concerned with the urban condition of life and death in the Global South.’ -- James Tyner, Kent State University, Ohio, US‘Urbanization is one of the most significant mega-trends of the modern era. It is also one of the most profoundly misunderstood. This knowledge gap is explored by Michael Glass, Taylor Seybolt and Phil Williams who examine the multiple causes, consequences and characteristics of global urban transformation. In their sweeping edited volume, contributors reflect on how the history, politics and economics of urbanization influences (and is influenced by) urban violence. A series of vivid case studies of under-studied cities from Africa, Asia and the Americas also reveal the complex relationships between urbanization, insecurity and resilience.’ -- Robert Muggah, co-founder of the Igarape Institute and SecDev Group, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xi Ariel C. Armony Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction to Urban Violence, Resilience and Security 1 Michael R. Glass, Taylor B. Seybolt and Phil Williams PART I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO URBAN VIOLENCE, RESILIENCE AND SECURITY 2 Urban violence in the Global South: drug traffickers, gangs, and organized crime 21 Phil Williams 3 Urban resilience for the 21st century 39 Savannah Cox 4 Urban governance in conflict zones: contentious politics, not “resilience” 53 Daniel E. Esser 5 Building effective and acceptable security-driven urban resilience 72 Jon Coaffee 6 Fragility and pernicious resilience in urban Latin America and the Caribbean 88 Enrique Desmond Arias PART II DIMENSIONS OF URBAN VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 7 Feral cities and the normative dimension of violence: Caracas and the Latin American city 101 Roberto Briceño-León 8 Xenophobic violence, displacement, and reintegration: a case study of female migrants in Isipingo, Durban, South Africa 120 Kim Gounder and Brij Maharaj 9 Shoot first, ask later: violence and anti-crime policies in Mexico’s Cuidad Juárez and Pakistan’s Karachi 138 Vanda Felbab-Brown 10 Strain between two worlds: a sociological approach to the rise and fall of crime and violence in Guatemala City 160 Daniel Núñez 11 Criminal victimization and social resilience in Latin America 177 Eduardo Moncada Index 193

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Book SynopsisThrough official maps, this book looks at how government presentations of Paris and environs change over the course of the Third Republic (1889-1934). Governmental policies, such as the creation of a mandatory national uniform educational system that will eventually include geography, combined with technological advances in the printing industry, to alter the look, exposure, reception, and distribution of government maps. The government initially seemed to privilege an exclusively positive view of the capital city and limited its presentation of it to land inside the walled fortifications. However, as the Republic progressed and Paris grew, technology altered how Parisians used and understood their urban space. Rail and automobiles made moving about the city and environs easier while increased industrialization moved factories and their workers further out into the Seine Department. During this time, maps transitioned from reflecting the past to documenting the present. With the advent of French urbanism after World War I, official mapped views of greater Paris abandoned privileging past achievements and began to mirror actual residential and industrial development as it pushed further out from the city centre. Finally, the government needed to plan for the future of greater Paris and official maps begin to show how the government viewed the direction of its capital city. Trade ReviewReviews 'A meticulous study of the mapping of Paris from the Third Republic to the eve of the Second World War, The Cartographic Capital brings force and coherence to the history of cartography, urbanism and to cultural and visual studies in general.'Tom Conley, Harvard University‘Olson’s book is…a useful study, starting from historical maps to propose relevant developments in the fields of urban history, history of cartography, history of ideas and town planning practices, and even French political and social history. The book is particularly welcome as the trope of ʻle Grand Parisʼ re-emerged in the national planning perspective of 2008, creating a new interest for the history and representation of the concept.’Gilles Palsky, Imago Mundi'Olson’s book makes a unique and worthy contribution to the history of cartography and the history of modern Paris. It is a useful and readable text for anyone interested in Third Republic Paris who wishes to orient themselves geographically and spatially in the city’s shifting physiognomy. Through Olson’s careful analysis, we see how the map archive has much to teach us about the history of core/periphery relationships, boundary-making, and infrastructure development in modern Paris.' Catherine Dunlop, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Creating Republican ParisChapter 1: Working with MapsChapter 2: Creating Map Readers: The Rise of Geography and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century FranceChapter 3: The Triumphant Republic: ‘Paris en 1889, [Les] Opérations de Voirie exécutées entre 1871 et 1889’Chapter 4: A New Way of Seeing Paris: La Carte de FranceChapter 5: The Beginning of French Urbanism: Léon Jausseuly’s 1919 Plan d’extensionChapter 6: The Rise of Suburban Paris: Henri Prost’s Carte généraleConclusion

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Offering a new theoretical framework for understanding gentrification and displacement, this timely Research Agenda focuses on resistance as the central research area in this subject field.Arguing that the future of gentrification research should focus on accomplishing the end of gentrification, chapters provide practical organizing and policy strategies using international case studies which are rooted in community-based research.Encouraging researchers to find inspiration in new methods, sites and questions for exploring resistance, this Research Agenda seeks to empower communities and cities to reclaim urban life and city space for people by examining key issues such as housing insecurity and lived reality versus policy and practice.Graduate students and researchers of geography, urban planning and urban sociology will find the use of case studies informative and thought-provoking. The suggested practical strategies will also be beneficial for urban planners and policymakers to fight displacement and slow gentrification.Trade Review‘This remarkable and eminently readable Research Agenda brings into view pragmatic and diverse strategies for stemming gentrification. In emphasizing little-understood frontiers of gentrification activism, including radical forms of counter-cartography, the queering of housing politics, and state-mandated rent regulation and affordable housing, this book is an invaluable—and hopeful—contribution to global gentrification scholarship.’ -- Malini Ranganathan, American University, USRecognising gentrification is ultimately a process that displaces the poor and marginal. This Research Agenda argues that it is not enough to simply diagnose the geographies of gentrification, but that we need to prescribe solutions. Showing that grounded knowledge of gentrification’s intersection with class, race and sexuality can help inform strategies of resistance, this is an internationally-relevant book which flags exciting new directions in gentrification scholarship and activism.’ -- Philip Hubbard, King's College, London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Gentrification 1 Winifred Curran and Leslie Kern PART I ORGANIZING AROUND THE UNDEREXPLORED IN GENTRIFICATION RESEARCH 2 A queer theory of housing politics: on gentrification and chrononormativity 17 Emma Spruce 3 Social reproduction in the gentrified city: resisting displacement in marketized Toronto 39 Sophie O’Manique and Sinéad Petrasek 4 Taking race seriously in gentrification research 63 Steven Tuttle and Alfredo Huante 5 Uncovering invisibilities in gentrification processes 81 Colleen Hammelman PART II EVERYDAY RESISTANCE: FROM LIVED EXPERIENCE TO POLICY AND PRACTICE 6 Moving beyond gentrification: regenerative mapping for geographies of radical resilience 103 Elizabeth Walsh, Evon Lopez, Jeremy Auerbach, Cara Marie DiEnno, Yessica Xytlalli Holguín, Adriana Lopez, Carrie Makarewicz, Solange Muñoz, Jessica Villena Sanchez and Dani Slabaugh 7 Never not organizing: long resistance and the fight against gentrification in Pilsen, Chicago 129 Winifred Curran and Euan Hague 8 Housing insecurity, lived reality, and the right to stay put in a gentrified southern European neighborhood: the case of Sant Antoni in Barcelona 151 Antonio López-Gay, Miguel Solana-Solana, Joan Sales-Favà, Helen V.S. Cole and Anna Ortiz-Guitart 9 Agents of change or maintenance women? Networks of control among women in a resettlement colony for former basti dwellers 173 Ramya Ramanath 10 Community development corporations collectivize to stay in place: lessons from Chicago’s Northwest Side 191 Ivis García 11 City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development’s Understanding of and Approach to Displacement 211 City of Seattle OPCD Staff (Brennon Staley, Nicolas Welch, David Goldberg, Patrice Thomas, Katie Sheehy, Dakota Murray, Rico Quirindongo, and Lauren Flemister) Index 231

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Book SynopsisTaking a critical perspective, this book rethinks public space in the context of contemporary global health and economic crises, as well as technological, political and cultural change. In order to do so, Ali Madanipour brings together two often unrelated discourses: public space and social inclusion, interrogating the potential for public spaces to contribute to inclusive social practices.Organized in two parts, the book first highlights various common meanings and philosophical concepts of public space, examining them in their constitution and application. Madanipour runs these concepts past the test of social practice, through the economic, political and cultural dimensions of social exclusion and inclusion. Chapters further analyse public space in its different forms: physical, institutional and technological, offering a wide-ranging and thought-provoking take on the concept.Timely and innovative, this book will be an invigorating read for urban studies, planning and human geography scholars, particularly those focusing on public space, social inclusion and urban processes.Trade Review‘The COVID-19 pandemic, social movements and communications technologies have reshaped the nature of public urban space and public life. In this extraordinarily erudite examination, Professor Madanipour draws together the observations of philosophers and researchers on the meaning of public space and of accessibility to it. He does so in a manner highly informative for anyone interested in civic life, present and future.’ -- Jon Lang, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Public space: the case for rethinking PART I CONCEPTS OF PUBLIC SPACE 2. Similarities and differences 3. Space: embodied, embedded, and unfolding 4. Public: totality, authority, and openness 5. Between generality, particularity, and singularity PART II PUBLIC SPACE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION 6. Public space as resource 7. Public space as power 8. Public space as experience 9. Conclusion: public space as inclusive space References Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the social implications of dense and compact cities, this enlightening book looks at micro-scale segregation through several lenses. These include the ways that the housing market constantly reconfigures social mix, how the structure of the housing stock shapes it, and the ways that policies are deployed to manage these effects. Taking a deep dive into micro-segregation in the socially mixed and dense centres of compact cities, the authors investigate the form and content of social and ethno-racial hierarchies at the micro-scale of different cities around the world and the ways these have evolved over time. Vertical Cities considers the ways the materiality of such hierarchies affects the reproduction of social inequalities in today’s large cities. Academics and researchers of urban sociology, housing, urban regeneration, urban studies and urban geography will find the original approach taken to this under-researched topic to be a vital resource. Practitioners and policy makers will find the innovative use of a common theoretical frame to analyse micro-scale social mix in vertical/compact cities informative when dealing with the management of neighbourhoods in inner cities.Trade Review‘When most people think about urban segregation they think about different residential areas of cities. But, as the contributors to this wide ranging and comprehensive volume convincingly show, urban social segregation can take many forms, both horizontal and vertical, and involve a wide range of different groups and housing types at a variety of different scales.’ -- Chris Hamnett, Emeritus Professor, King's College, London, UK‘This book has a highly original focus on micro-segregation, particularly vertical, revealing forms of housing and urban inequalities and hierarchies that are otherwise hidden in socially mixed neighborhoods. Examples from different cities worldwide show how widespread those micro-segregations are, but also how different, in form, in the way they are shaped by historical processes and market dynamics, and in the local social configurations they create.’ -- Edmond Préteceille, Sciences Po CNRS Paris, France‘Contributors document the many forms of spatial separation that structure residents’ daily lives but that are invisible to the administrative census data that urbanists usually rely on to measure segregation. Studies of cities around the world included here focus especially on differences in class or racial/ethnic composition between lower and upper floors of multistory buildings. They call into question the spatial scale of urban phenomena – neighborhoods, neighboring, and urban inequality – that are too often taken for granted in empirical research.’ -- John R. Logan, Brown University, Rhode Island, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: the cities in the city xv Prodromos Tsiavos Preface xviii 1 Introduction to Vertical Cities: urban micro-segregation, housing markets and social reproduction 1 Thomas Maloutas and Nikos Karadimitriou PART I HIERARCHIES IN NEGOTIATED SOCIAL MIX 2 Constantly evoked but under-researched: the conundrum of vertical stratification in Naples 23 Nick Dines and Cristina Mattiucci 3 Flat by flat: producing micro-scale social differentiation in an arrival neighbourhood of Marseille 39 Apolline Meyer and Thomas Pfirsch 4 Micro-housing, vertical marginalization and “normalcy”: negotiating inclusion arrangements in the interstices of residential apartment buildings in Beirut 57 Jihad Farah and Salah el-dinn Sadeck 5 Micro-segregation and coexistence in Athens: the debate on segregation and its implications for urban research 73 Ifigeneia Dimitrakou, Dimitris Balampanidis, Nikolina Myofa, Iris Polyzou, Dimitra Siatitsa, Stavros Spyrellis and Kostas Vakalopoulos 6 Measuring and mapping vertical segregation in Athens 88 Thomas Maloutas, Stavros Spyrellis and Nikos Karadimitriou PART II SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ETHNIC PROXIMITY 7 Co-location of different population categories. Micro-level segregation dynamics: the case of Amsterdam 99 Rinus Deurloo, Sako Musterd, Bart Sleutjes and Jeroen Slot 8 Social mix and vertical segregation in Madrid 116 Jesús Leal and Daniel Sorando 9 Vertical micro-segregation in a middle-sized Mediterranean city: a case study in Málaga, Spain 129 Juan José Natera-Rivas, Remedios Larrubia-Vargas and Susana Navarro-Rodríguez PART III HIERARCHICAL PROXIMITY IN SEGMENTED HOUSING MARKETS 10 Vertical segregation of rural migrants in urban China: a case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou 139 Sainan Lin and Zhigang Li 11 Micro-segregation in Rio de Janeiro 154 Vinicius M. Netto, Camila Carvalho, Maria Fiszon and Yasmin Couto PART IV SOCIAL MIX IN RECOMMODIFIED STATE SOCIALIST CITIES 12 Vertical separation in high-rise apartment buildings: evidence from Bucharest and Budapest under state socialism 173 Szymon Marcińczak and Daniel Baldwin Hess 13 Vertical micro-segregation in apartment buildings in Budapest 189 Zoltán Kovács, Judit Székely and Balázs Szabó 14 Patterns of small-scale residential segregation in the centre of Belgrade 204 Ivan Ratkaj, Aljoša Budović and Nikola Jocić 15 Gentrification as a micro-segregation phenomenon: social and spatial layers of Tallinn inner city 220 Kadri Leetmaa, Elina Maarja Suitso, Kadi Kalm, Ingmar Pastak and Tiit Tammaru PART V PROXIMITY IN GENTRIFIED URBAN SPACES 16 Beyond the concept of spatial segregation: analytical weakness, perverse policies, and evidence from Mexico City 240 Eftychia Bournazou 17 Compulsory social mix, micro-scale segregation and gentrification: the case of Gan HaHashmal neighbourhood, Tel Aviv 255 Tal Shamur and Haim Yacobi 18 Planning vertical differentiation? Geodesign workshop in the case study area of Neve-Sha’anan neighbourhood in Tel Aviv 272 Shlomit Flint Ashery and Rinat Steinlauf Millo PART VI HIERARCHIES IN HOUSING TOWERS 19 Micro-segregation in Seoul, the capital city of the “Republic of Apartments” 285 Yu-Min Joo 20 Wealth-based micro-segregation in Hong Kong: social distance within spatial proximity 300 Hang Kei Ho and Maurice Yip 21 Perceived pull and push forces in high-rise developing neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile 314 Ernesto López-Morales and Ignacio Arce 22 The commodification of height: vertical price differentiation in Vienna’s condominium towers 333 Walter Matznetter and Robert Musil Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanisation, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.Chapters collapse traditional binary notions of development as north-south, rural-urban, global-local and traditional modern, embracing a revised conceptualisation of uneven development as a process dependent upon multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks. It offers potential routes for substantive, interlinked research agendas, including new ruralities, governance, land rights, agro-ecology, financialisation, power relations, family farming, and the role of markets.Scholars of geography, planning, rural sociology and rural-urban studies looking for a broader understanding of the topic will find this book essential. It will also be beneficial for those engaged in rural development policy and practice.Trade Review‘This book makes an interesting contribution to rural studies, informed by a solid grounding in the history of the discipline. It is surely correct to work toward eroding the division between rural and urban studies and the book provides a good guide to anyone looking for a broad description of the issues facing global development.’ -- Selyf Morgan, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘This book makes a significant and valuable contribution to interdisciplinary rural studies. It centres the rural and rurality while breaking down barriers, divides and binaries between the rural and the urban. It identifies key areas of rural research, as well as their relevant debates and bodies of literature, which will be indispensable for anyone interested in researching or working in and on rural spaces and places.’ -- Miles Kenney-Lazar, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography'Rural spaces, while still under-threat, also represent sites of incredible experimentation, innovation and resistance. In an era of growing ecological and economic crisis, this book represents a much needed addition to the literature showing rurality as site for contestation and socio-ecological redemption.' --Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. New ruralities and centralities for rural development 2. Changing questions of governance: reflexive and disruptive governance in the Anthropocene 3. New power configurations and transformations 4. Financialization and nested vulnerabilities. The rise of fictitious capital in placing agrarian change 5. Re-claiming land: questions of land rights and the management of the biosphere 6. Agroecology: a new paradigm for rural development? 7. Family farming in changing agricultural social structures 8. The power of the new markets Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisAddressing fundamental questions surrounding the critical changes affecting China’s urban landscape, social organization and community governance, Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China thoroughly reviews the reform of property rights in changing political and economic conditions.Zhu Qian presents a comprehensive study highlighting the key theories and practices in urban and social development processes and provides guidance on how to understand both the parallels and differences that these reveal. Utilizing a cross-sectoral and multi-scalar examination of property rights in a property-led urban environment, the book illustrates increasingly complex interactions between state and non-state actors and examines the characteristics and consequences of rural-urban land conversion. It further analyses the impacts of resettled villagers’ adaptation to urban society and the role of property rights in China’s recent high-profile urban-rural integrated development.This insightful book will ensure a thorough grasp of the pertinent issues for scholars, researchers and practitioners within the fields of urban planning, human geography and land economics. It will also provide a more general systemic understanding for graduate students interested in the recent challenges and strategies in a property rights regime with strong state intervention.Trade Review‘Zhu Qian provides an incredibly thorough treatment of property rights in China. Most importantly, this remarkable book investigates China’s urban transformation corresponding to changing property regimes. His explanations of the pivotal role of state-controlled property rights in China’s phenomenal urbanisation, resettlement and urban-rural integration, informality and property speculation are highly original and insightful. The book is an essential reading for those who are interested in urban development in China and the grounded implication of property rights.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK‘Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China by Zhu Qian provides a solid analytical contribution to our understanding of the complex processes of institutional change that underlie Chinese urbanization. The author has conducted valuable and in-depth research on land rights in the context of China’s multi-faceted development, including on political campaigns, land acquisition, informal housing, and resettlement. The book will be of significant value for planners, geographers, and practitioners.’ -- Peter Ho, Zhejiang University, China and London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: property rights in China’s urban transformation 2. Property rights, institutions, and the market 3. Property rights during the socialist period 4. Property rights and rural‒urban land conversion 5. Resettlement and transformation 6. Property rights and urban‒rural integrated development 7. Informality and property rights 8. Concluding reflections: continuing debates and future prospects References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This insightful Advanced Introduction deftly explores urban segregation on an international scale, offering expert analysis on pressing and theoretical debates and key contemporary issues relating to this interdisciplinary field of study. It provides detailed insights into the various dimensions and domains of urban segregation, the range of methods used for measuring segregation, and the effects it can have on neighbourhoods and individuals. Recognising variations in the patterns of segregation from country to country, the book further discusses the different approaches and challenges affecting policy interventions.Key Features: A review of theories of urban segregation A focus on the impacts of urban segregation Critical analysis of classic and new research methods An exploration of urban segregation across all continents Discussion of why so much attention is given to segregation An outline of segregation in various domains and dimensions Composed of informative and engaging chapters, this timely Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for human geography, sociology and social policy, urban and regional studies students, teachers, and established academics.Trade Review‘In this Advanced Introduction, Sako Musterd offers a broad and incisive overview of the now voluminous literature on urban segregation. Musterd successfully navigates through the often contentious explanations for segregation, and offers new thinking about segregation and the links to spatial inequality. In an era when large scale immigration is changing the inner cities, in Europe and the US, it is a timely review of processes which are fundamental forces in urban change.’ -- William Clark, University of California, US‘This magnificent book could only have been written by Sako Musterd, who brilliantly distills the international scholarly and experiential expertise gained during his unparalleled career. It synthesizes in accessible fashion what we know about the conceptual, methodological, theoretical, political and policy issues related to segregation, and why we should care.’ -- George C. Galster, Wayne State University, US‘Urban segregation, whether by race, class, income or religion is a subject of long standing interest to politicians, policy makers and residents alike. It influences who lives where, and why and how and it has impacts on education, crime, housing and health. This is a must-read introduction by an internationally-known and long-established expert on the subject.’ -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK‘Sako Musterd, one of the most eminent experts on urban segregation, presents an extensive and updated approach to this topic in his remarkable book. Through the innovative lens of an urban history perspective, he deals with the complexity and the multidimensional aspects of this crucial urban process, whilst also addressing important societal and policy considerations.’ -- Marco Oberti, Sciences Po Paris, and Centre for Research on Social Inequalities, France‘Advanced Introduction to Urban Segregation is a brilliant and magisterial synthesis of complex and multi-dimensional urban segregation beyond residential differentiation. Sako Musterd, a world authority on urban segregation research, lucidly explains the concept of urban segregation and its measurement, impacts and policy interventions. Based on his lifetime study of segregation, the book combines deep scholarship on the debates and the research agenda with a stimulating and accessible presentation for scholars and students. This is essential reading for many generations of urban studies.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field of education. In addition, this comprehensive Handbook tackles crucial group-dimensions across race, class and culture as well as age groups, the urban rich, middle class, and gentrified households. In a 'world tour' of urban contexts, the reader is guided through six continents confronting pressing segregation issues. Leading international scholars offer valuable insights across regional, ethnic, socioeconomic and welfare regime contexts. Three thematic parts explore key segregation questions worldwide, the multiple domains and dimensions of the topic and the methods, approaches and debates surrounding its measurement. Through these lenses, this timely Handbook provides a key contribution to understanding what urban segregation is about, why it has developed, what its consequences are and how it is measured, conceptualised and framed. Containing clear use of visual aids alongside textual analysis, this Handbook will be an engaging and accessible resource for students and scholars with an interest in urban and human geography, cities and planning, and the wider field of urban studies. Contributors include: R. Andersson, R. Atkinson, N. Bailey, W.R. Boterman, A. Brama, A. Cardoso, R. Cucca, R. Forrest, D. França, F. Gou, H. Hanhörster, H.K. Ho, C. Hochstenbach, P.A. Jargowsky, J. Kohlbacher, Z. Kovács, C. Lemanski, Z. Li, A. Madanipour, T. Maloutas, E. Marques, S. Musterd, M. Oberti, J. Östh, A. Owens, E. Préteceille, B. Randolph, U. Reeger, K.S. Tong, U. Türk, W. van Gent, J. van Rooyen, A. Walks, W. Wang, S. WeckTrade Review'Sako Musterd has brought together an extraordinary group of distinguished scholars from across the world to produce a cross-national, interdisciplinary study of urban segregation. As well as providing a wealth of empirical data and methodological approaches to the study of segregation, the book makes important contributions to the analysis of globalization, neoliberalism, gentrification, and the decline of the welfare state. Yet, while attributing much to these general processes, it also distinguishes the varying effects of particular local and national policies.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design, US'This book presents new points of departure for debates about segregation. Its chapters provide original, cross-disciplinary, research-based accounts using different frameworks to build on earlier work. They explore economic, policy and other factors that drive changing patterns of urban segregation in different cities and countries and analyse how the various dimensions of segregation are overlapping and reinforcing. The book provides new insights and a new baseline that make it essential reading for anyone concerned with urban research and policy.' --Alan Murie, University of Birmingham, UK'Social segregation is a wide-ranging and important phenomenon within cities across the world. The implications are profound in terms of social interaction as well as access to employment, housing, education, health, transport and open space. This valuable edited collection examines the variations in segregation in a variety of different cities and contexts and will be an important source for staff and students.' --Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and UESTC, Chengdu, ChinaTable of ContentsContents List of contributors ix Preface xv INTRODUCTION 1 Urban segregation: contexts, domains, dimensions and approaches 2 Sako Musterd PART I KEY SEGREGATION ISSUES ACROSS THE GLOBE: URBAN SEGREGATION IN CITIES IN AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 2 Urban segregation in South Africa: the evolution of exclusion in Cape Town 19 Jacobus van Rooyen and Charlotte Lemanski 3 Segregation by class and race in S.o Paulo 36 Eduardo Marques and Danilo Fran.a 4 Residential segregation of rural migrants in post-reform urban China 55 Zhigang Li and Feicui Gou 5 Dimensions of urban segregation at the end of the Australian dream 76 Bill Randolph 6 Globalization, immigration and ethnic diversity: the exceptional case of Vienna 101 Josef Kohlbacher and Ursula Reeger 7 Do market forces reduce segregation? The controversies of post-socialist urban regions of Central and Eastern Europe 118 Zolt.n Kov.cs 8 Urban and school segregation in the larger Paris metropolitan area: a complex interweaving with a strong qualitative impact on social cohesion 134 Marco Oberti 9 Racial and economic segregation in the US: overlapping and reinforcing dimensions 151 Paul A. Jargowsky PART II MULTIPLE DOMAINS AND DIMENSIONS OF SEGREGATION 10 Can the public space be a counterweight to social segregation? 170 Ali Madanipour 11 Spatial segregation and the quality of the local environment in contemporary cities 185 Roberta Cucca 12 Intersections of class, ethnicity and age: social segregation of children in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam 200 Willem R. Boterman 13 Change and persistence in the third dimension: residential segregation by age and family type in Stockholm, 1990 and 2014 219 .sa Br.m. and Roger Andersson 14 Segregation by household composition and income across multiple spatial scales 239 Ann Owens 15 Middle-class family encounters and the role of micro-publics for cross-social interaction 254 Heike Hanh.rster and Sabine Weck 16 Socioeconomic segregation and the middle classes in Paris, Rio de Janeiro and S.o Paulo: a comparative perspective 270 Edmond Pr.teceille and Adalberto Cardoso 17 Segregation and the urban rich: enclaves, networks and mobilities 289 Rowland Atkinson and Hang Kei Ho 18 The impact of gentrification on social and ethnic segregation 306 Wouter van Gent and Cody Hochstenbach 19 Vertical social differentiation as segregation in spatial proximity 325 Thomas Maloutas 20 Residential stratification and segmentation in the hyper-vertical city 346 Ray Forrest, Ka Sik Tong and Weijia Wang PART III MEASURING AND CONCEPTUALISING SEGREGATION: METHODS, APPROACHES AND DEBATES 21 Understanding the processes of changing segregation 367 Nick Bailey 22 Integrating infrastructure and accessibility in measures of bespoke neighbourhoods 378 John .sth and Umut Türk 23 On the meaning and measurement of the ghetto as a form of segregation 395 Alan Walks EPILOGUE 24 Towards further understanding of urban segregation 411 Sako Musterd Index 425

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Book SynopsisOver the last four decades, China has witnessed dramatic economic growth, transforming into an economic powerhouse with considerable consequences for its rural regions. In this timely book, Guy M. Robinson adeptly navigates the principal elements, key events and significant changes of the transformation of China’s countryside.Chapters assess economic, social, and environmental aspects of China’s rural transformation, examining the central role of the Chinese Communist Party and government policies in shaping this change. Offering an interdisciplinary perspective, Robinson comprehensively explores the key events in the transition from a rural peasant society to a countryside that is a complex mosaic of ‘hollowed’ villages, ‘desakota’ peri-urban fringes, farming landscapes, tourist attractions, new villages, ‘left behind’ children and elderly, wholesale rural poverty alleviation, and degraded and newly restored ecosystems.This book will prove to be an essential read for academics and students of geopolitics, human geography, environmental studies, economics and finance, and development studies focusing on China. It will also be an invigorating read for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Chinese and Asian studies.Trade Review‘This book offers an impressive and very insightful overview of China’s rural development policies since the 1980s and their outcomes. Guy M. Robinson tackles issues ranging from poverty alleviation, ecological restoration programs and the rise of cooperatives to land consolidation and agricultural modernization. He does not shy away from contentious issues like China’s one-child policy, forced resettlement policies, and rural development policies in western China’s ethnically and culturally diverse regions. A must-read for anyone interested in gaining an objective, science-based view of China’s rural transformation.’ -- Nico Heerink, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands‘Informed by half a century of research on rural and environmental dynamics and an extensive review of writings by Chinese scholars, Guy M. Robinson provides an accessible and comprehensive survey of China's multifaceted and uneven rural-urban, and accompanying agrarian, demographic and social transitions. Along the way, Transforming Rural China is also a valuable guide to further reading on an array of topics, from China's ecological discourses to regional development and rural tourism.’ -- James D Sidaway, National University of Singapore‘Professor Robinson gives us a unique and clear perspective on China’s rural transformation. He began with the guidance of a Cambridge-trained teacher who shared much of the Western bias towards China. Eventually, through his own endeavours, the collaboration of his Chinese students and friends, and numerous visits to China, he developed an understanding of rural China that most Westerners still do not comprehend, which he shares in this book.’ -- Helen Bao, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Approaches to rural transformation 2 Peasants no more? Social change in the countryside 3 Rural–urban migration and ‘hollowed’ villages 4 Desakota landscapes 5 From collectives to co-operatives 6 Modernising agriculture 7 Rural tourism and rediscovering rural heritage 8 Towards the ecological civilisation: conservation and afforestation 9 Building the rural future and alleviating rural poverty 10 Way out west: managing China’s ‘colonial’ frontier 11 Whither rural China? References

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states. Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities and themes.Key features include: analysis of cities as the creative nodes of societies discussion of both contemporary and historical cities exploration of the different spaces created by cities and states identification of the demands of cities in relation to climate change. This Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for scholars and advanced students of urban studies, cities, urban geography, urban sociology, and social and cultural geography.Trade Review'This brilliant book, with its unique conceptual structure, accessible writing and innovative chapter format, featuring a kaleidoscope of ''insights'' from cities around the world, provides a comprehensive and succinct synthesis of Peter Taylor's unrivalled and systematic urban scholarship. The masterpiece checks off all registers of urban studies as we know them and still provides a pathbreaking perspective on one of humanity's oldest and most enduring achievements: the city.' -- - Roger Keil, York University, Canada'Peter Taylor's insightful new book provides an informed synopsis of current debates in urban theory while also taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of actual cities around the world at different historical moments. Theoretical ideas and empirical information are presented with admirable force and clarity. A notable strength of the book is the extended narratives on individual cities that accompany each chapter.' -- - Allen J. Scott, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Preamble: academic literature on cities 1. City basics 2. Cities as the birth of civilizations 3. Busy cities 4. Cities connected 5. Demanding cities 6. Divided cities 7. Cities in states 8. Cities globalized 9. Cities in Nature Bibliographic notes and references Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states. Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities and themes.Key features include: analysis of cities as the creative nodes of societies discussion of both contemporary and historical cities exploration of the different spaces created by cities and states identification of the demands of cities in relation to climate change. This Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for scholars and advanced students of urban studies, cities, urban geography, urban sociology, and social and cultural geography.Trade Review'This brilliant book, with its unique conceptual structure, accessible writing and innovative chapter format, featuring a kaleidoscope of ''insights'' from cities around the world, provides a comprehensive and succinct synthesis of Peter Taylor's unrivalled and systematic urban scholarship. The masterpiece checks off all registers of urban studies as we know them and still provides a pathbreaking perspective on one of humanity's oldest and most enduring achievements: the city.' -- - Roger Keil, York University, Canada'Peter Taylor's insightful new book provides an informed synopsis of current debates in urban theory while also taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of actual cities around the world at different historical moments. Theoretical ideas and empirical information are presented with admirable force and clarity. A notable strength of the book is the extended narratives on individual cities that accompany each chapter.' -- - Allen J. Scott, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Preamble: academic literature on cities 1. City basics 2. Cities as the birth of civilizations 3. Busy cities 4. Cities connected 5. Demanding cities 6. Divided cities 7. Cities in states 8. Cities globalized 9. Cities in Nature Bibliographic notes and references Index

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Book SynopsisIt is now over 50 years since the term 'gentrification' was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence. Scholarly contributions are drawn from both established and up and coming experts in gentrification studies world-wide, and a deliberate attempt has been made to broaden the geographical scope of study. As such, the Handbook covers processes of gentrification in the global north and the global south. It also looks at different mutations of gentrification and pays proper attention to both resistance to gentrification and the importance of thinking about alternatives. The Handbook challenges readers to look at both the future of gentrification studies as well as the actual process of gentrification itself. Gentrification studies is interdisciplinary and this Handbook will be especially useful to scholars in many fields including geography, sociology, anthropology, planning, law, urban studies, policy studies, rural studies, development studies, and cultural studies. It will also be of value to those activists fighting gentrification worldwide.Trade Review‘This Handbook undertakes such a critical and authoritative assessment of the emergent field having an important dialogue between existing theories and new conceptualizations of gentrification.’ -- Saraswati Raju, Regional Science Policy and Practice‘This excellent, wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook deals with comparative gentrification theory, key concepts in gentrification, different types and dimensions of gentrification and resistance to gentrification. It includes a wide range of authors and looks at gentrification in a variety of global contexts. All in all, a valuable addition to the literature.’ -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and UESTC, Chengdu, China‘The Handbook truly is a useful resource for urban scholars and students as it offers well-written entries by established urban scholars and several promising new researchers on various subjects within gentrification research. As such, it provides a wealth of knowledge on the processes and modalities of gentrification, as well as new research agendas on a variety of topics.’ -- Wouter van Gent, International Journal of Housing Policy‘This volume draws on an impressive cast of contributors and embraces a dizzying array of interrelated topics.’ -- Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘This Handbook of Gentrification Studies will be useful for graduates studying anthropology of cities, urbanism, geography, and new urban identities. There is no more complete Handbook on gentrification in the English language to date.’ -- Yves Laberge, Electronic Green Journal‘The world’s leading analyst of gentrification convenes an extraordinary team of contributors to map the evolving contours of planetary gentrification. This Handbook is your essential guide to the cosmopolitan cultures of capital that are intensifying the competitive nature of life everywhere on an urbanizing planet — from big cities to small agricultural villages, from the postindustrial consumption landscapes of the Global North to the hybrid hyper-modernities of the Global South and East.’ -- Elvin Wyly, The University of British Columbia, Canada‘The Handbook of Gentrification Studies is useful and informative. It is a good starting point for encountering the variety of debates on the topic of gentrification and its current vexations. It demonstrates clearly the need to think in flexible, cosmopolitan and comparative ways about gentrification, and consider seriously the complicated potential offered by communal resistance to gentrification.’ -- Helen Traill, LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Towards a C21st Global Gentrification Studies Loretta Lees SECTION I RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION (THEORY) 2. Beyond Anglo-American Gentrification Theory Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales 3. Beyond the Elephant of Gentrification: relational approaches to a chaotic problem Freek de Hann 4. Comparative urbanism in gentrification studies: fashion or progress? Loretta Lees SECTION II KEY/CORE CONCEPTS IN GENTRIFICATION STUDIES 5. From class to gentrification and back again Michaela Benson and Emma Jackson 6. Gentrification and Landscape Change Martin Phillips 7. Spatial capital and planetary gentrification: residential location, mobility and social inequality Patrick Rérat 8. Rent gaps Tom Slater 9. Gentrification-induced Displacement Zhao Zhang and Shenjing He SECTION III SOCIAL CLEAVAGES IN ADDITION TO CLASS 10. Non-normative sexualities and gentrification Petra Doan 11. Age, lifecourse and generation in gentrification processes Cody Hochstenbach and Willem Boterman 12. Gentrification and ethnicity Tone Huse 13. Rethinking the Gender–Gentrification Nexus Bahar Sakizlioglu SECTION IV TYPES OF GENTRIFICATION 14. Slum gentrification Eduardo Ascensão 15. New-build gentrification Mark Davidson 16. The Gentrification of Public Housing Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia 17. Tourism Gentrification Agustin Cocola-Gant 18. Retail Gentrification Phil Hubbard 19. Gentle gentrification in the exceptional city of LA? Juliet Kahne 20. New directions in urban environmental/green gentrification research Hamil Pearsall 21. Gentrification, artists and cultural economy Andy Pratt 22. Wilderness gentrification: moving ‘off-the-beaten rural tracks’ Darren Smith, Martin Phillips and Chloe Kinton SECTION V LIVING AND RESISTING GENTRIFICATION 23. Resisting gentrification Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso 24. Alternatives to gentrification: exploring urban community land trusts and urban ecovillage practices Susannah Bunce 25. Immigration and gentrification Geoffrey DeVerteuil 26. Property and planning law in England: facilitating and countering gentrification Antonia Layard 27. Self renovating neighbourhoods as an alternative to gentrification or decline Jess Steele Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Analysing the causes and effects of widespread gentrification, this Advanced Introduction provides an innovative insight into the global debate instigated by this process. Examining the impact of gentrification on lower income groups and other issues, Chris Hamnett discusses research into the socio-economic causes and effects of gentrification in a variety of cities worldwide. Key features include: A detailed examination of both contemporary and historical sources Exploration of the history, geography and development of gentrification and some of its more recent forms Chapters covering a selection of central topics including urban displacement and social class change. Composed of succinct but highly informative chapters, this engaging Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for urban geography, urban studies and planning students as well as scholars with a particular interest in urban sociology and social policy.Trade Review‘Like a fine Islay single malt scotch, this volume is a rewarding distillation. It is both a literature review and a compilation of his first-hand observations not only in the UK, but in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and China. Indeed, this volume might qualify as Professor Hamnett’s magnum opus on the subject. This volume concentrates a sweeping analysis of the gentrification literature in an accessible and readable format. Faculty, as well as students, are likely to find it a compelling desk reference, of value to neophytes as well as grizzled scholars in the social sciences, geography, urban planning, and public policy. Hamnett’s meaty reference list alone is worth the price of this valuable book.’ -- Dennis E Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In this book, Chris Hamnett, a key figure in gentrification studies, offers a succinct yet sophisticated overview of this classical topic which abounds with heated debates and lasting vitality. Situating gentrification in wider urban processes, Hamnett aptly engages with the long-running debates on its causes and explanations, evolution and demographic changes, socio-spatial implications and future trends, with a historical perspective and global outlook. This book is an insightful read for anyone interested in gentrification and broader urban transformations.’ -- Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong, China‘Chris Hamnett, a world authority on gentrification, masterfully illuminates the history and geography of gentrification research. This remarkable book is a lucid introduction to this classic topic as well as an advanced and insightful reflection on cutting-edge issues, heated debates and the future agenda.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK‘Hamnett’s book on gentrification clarifies and contextualizes a complex, long-lasting and animated debate in academia and beyond. Gentrification will most probably continue to reshape cities in favor of those who can afford its impact and against those who cannot. Is the significance and the global reach of gentrification growing and is its social imprint and spatial form changing? Robust and clear arguments make this book an essential read for urban scholars and students and for anyone interested in the social dimensions of cities.’ -- Thomas Maloutas, Emeritus Professor of Social Geography and Thematic Chartography, Harokopio University, Greece‘Chris Hamnett has long been a central figure in the development of gentrification research. Here he provides a magisterial and lucid overview of a literature that continues to address vital problems for urban scholarship and social policy. That this small book can cover so much of this territory is a tribute to Hamnett’s informed judgment of empirical trends, conceptual arguments and policy consequences.’ -- David Ley, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada‘Building on a lifetime experience and study of gentrification, Chris Hamnett has written an authoritative and comprehensive Advanced Introduction to Gentrification. This compelling text covers the essential elements of the widening process of gentrification and related urban social class transformation debates. Both “time” and “space” variations of gentrification and changing meanings of the concept receive ample attention while theories, causes and effects are critically addressed as well. This book is essential reading for all who are involved in gentrification.’ -- Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to gentrification 2. Definitions, forms, history and geography 3. Causation, explanation and theory: capital, class, culture and the state 4. Gentrification and the changing social-class structure of cities 5. Gentrification, displacement and replacement 6. Global gentrification or category imperialism? 7. Conclusion: the future of gentrification References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Analysing the causes and effects of widespread gentrification, this Advanced Introduction provides an innovative insight into the global debate instigated by this process. Examining the impact of gentrification on lower income groups and other issues, Chris Hamnett discusses research into the socio-economic causes and effects of gentrification in a variety of cities worldwide. Key features include: A detailed examination of both contemporary and historical sources Exploration of the history, geography and development of gentrification and some of its more recent forms Chapters covering a selection of central topics including urban displacement and social class change. Composed of succinct but highly informative chapters, this engaging Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for urban geography, urban studies and planning students as well as scholars with a particular interest in urban sociology and social policy.Trade Review‘Like a fine Islay single malt scotch, this volume is a rewarding distillation. It is both a literature review and a compilation of his first-hand observations not only in the UK, but in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and China. Indeed, this volume might qualify as Professor Hamnett’s magnum opus on the subject. This volume concentrates a sweeping analysis of the gentrification literature in an accessible and readable format. Faculty, as well as students, are likely to find it a compelling desk reference, of value to neophytes as well as grizzled scholars in the social sciences, geography, urban planning, and public policy. Hamnett’s meaty reference list alone is worth the price of this valuable book.’ -- Dennis E Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In this book, Chris Hamnett, a key figure in gentrification studies, offers a succinct yet sophisticated overview of this classical topic which abounds with heated debates and lasting vitality. Situating gentrification in wider urban processes, Hamnett aptly engages with the long-running debates on its causes and explanations, evolution and demographic changes, socio-spatial implications and future trends, with a historical perspective and global outlook. This book is an insightful read for anyone interested in gentrification and broader urban transformations.’ -- Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong, China‘Chris Hamnett, a world authority on gentrification, masterfully illuminates the history and geography of gentrification research. This remarkable book is a lucid introduction to this classic topic as well as an advanced and insightful reflection on cutting-edge issues, heated debates and the future agenda.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK‘Hamnett’s book on gentrification clarifies and contextualizes a complex, long-lasting and animated debate in academia and beyond. Gentrification will most probably continue to reshape cities in favor of those who can afford its impact and against those who cannot. Is the significance and the global reach of gentrification growing and is its social imprint and spatial form changing? Robust and clear arguments make this book an essential read for urban scholars and students and for anyone interested in the social dimensions of cities.’ -- Thomas Maloutas, Emeritus Professor of Social Geography and Thematic Chartography, Harokopio University, Greece‘Chris Hamnett has long been a central figure in the development of gentrification research. Here he provides a magisterial and lucid overview of a literature that continues to address vital problems for urban scholarship and social policy. That this small book can cover so much of this territory is a tribute to Hamnett’s informed judgment of empirical trends, conceptual arguments and policy consequences.’ -- David Ley, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada‘Building on a lifetime experience and study of gentrification, Chris Hamnett has written an authoritative and comprehensive Advanced Introduction to Gentrification. This compelling text covers the essential elements of the widening process of gentrification and related urban social class transformation debates. Both “time” and “space” variations of gentrification and changing meanings of the concept receive ample attention while theories, causes and effects are critically addressed as well. This book is essential reading for all who are involved in gentrification.’ -- Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to gentrification 2. Definitions, forms, history and geography 3. Causation, explanation and theory: capital, class, culture and the state 4. Gentrification and the changing social-class structure of cities 5. Gentrification, displacement and replacement 6. Global gentrification or category imperialism? 7. Conclusion: the future of gentrification References Index

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Book SynopsisCompelling and engaging, this Handbook on Shrinking Cities addresses the fundamentals of shrinkage, exploring its causal factors, the ways in which planning strategies and policies are steered, and innovative solutions for revitalising shrinking cities. It analyses the multidimensional phenomena involved in processes of shrinkage, where cities experience a dramatic decline in their economic and social bases.Offering a timely response to the endurance of decline in cities across the globe, contributions from top scholars showcase a wide range of perspectives on the ongoing challenges of shrinkage. Chapters cover topics of ‘governance’, ‘greening’ and ‘right-sizing’, and ‘regrowth’, laying the relevant groundwork for the Handbook’s proposals for dealing with shrinkage in the age of COVID-19 and beyond. Leading experts in the fields of urban and regional development contribute novel ideas pertinent to the future of shrinking cities, considering factors such as economic prosperity, liveability, social stability, and innovation, ultimately representing a paradigmatic shift from growth-centred planning to the notion of ‘shrinking sustainably’.In suggesting strategies to reverse decline and generate newer, more robust development, this prescient Handbook will prove beneficial to scholars of human geography and urban planning. The wide range of case studies will also make this a vital read for planning practitioners.Trade Review‘This excellent collection includes insightful reviews of current research, recently implemented projects and policies, and analyses of emerging topics chiefly from the European experience are supplemented with examples from North America, Japan, and Mexico. This book gathers excellent studies of a range of programmes including regrowth, shrinking smart, green innovation, infrastructure, complemented with chapters on governance, social capital, and relevant social issues. Chapters on the epistemology of urban shrinkage research and current debates on terminology amplify the significance of this volume. This timely book offers an invaluable resource for researchers, policy-makers in Europe and other world regions who are seeking examples of good programmes and policies to manage urban shrinkage. It should be of interest to researchers and policy-makers interested in the practical experience of managing urban shrinkage, and those interested in theoretical debates about shrinkage, governance, and new topics that require further explorations. -- Chung-Tong Wu, University of Sydney, Australia‘Our cities represent very comprehensive social ecosystems – a mosaic consisting of diverse structures interlinked by the veins of infrastructure shaped by multiple actions of various actors. The Handbook on Shrinking Cities, edited by Karina Pallagst, Marco Bontje, Emmanuèle Cunningham Sabot and René Fleschurz presents a similar picture. This is a book in which the synergy between chapters written by numerous authors creates a multi-faceted picture of shrinking cities and which will be of interest to a wide range of readers.’ -- Maros Finka, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and President of the AESOP‘With COVID-19 upending traditional patterns of urban living, some shrinking cities may be facing unique opportunities for revitalization and prosperity. This wonderful collection of essays from established and new scholars combines multi-disciplinary expertise to propose innovative ideas and planning strategies for shrinking cities around the world.’ -- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, UCLA, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Introduction: shrinking cities research in times of COVID-19 1 Karina Pallagst and Patricia M.I. Hammer PART I CONCEPTUALISING SHRINKING SMART 1 The language of shrinking cities: terminology and translation to describe a new urban regime 9 Emmanuèle Cunningham Sabot and Maja Ročak 2 Shrinking cities: new insights into planning cultures 26 Karina Pallagst and René Fleschurz 3 Path dependence in shrinking cities: learning from the past 40 Victoria Pinoncely 4 Shrinking smart from theory to practice: an epistemological approach to constructing a new planning concept 54 Bozhidar Ivanov 5 Place attachment and negative mindset in shrinking cities: is there a contradiction? 67 Solène Le Borgne 6 Understanding the role of social capital in regenerating shrinking cities: insights from the Netherlands 80 Maja Ročak 7 Shrinking cities as epistemic communities 94 Ivonne Audirac 8 Urban shrinkage and socio-economic segregation in medium-sized cities: the case of Gera 108 David Huntington PART II GOVERNING SHRINKING CITIES 9 Governance in shrinking cities: the role of active citizenship in emerging governance 122 Agnes Matoga 10 Urban mindware in governing post-socialist shrinking cities 134 Krzysztof Stachowiak and Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz 11 Governance challenges in shrinking cities: the example of brownfield site reuse and governance 148 Dieter Rink and Annegret Haase 12 Shrinking cities are here to stay: place-sensitive policy responses? 162 Flavio Besana and Kai Böhme 13 The legal and planning system for shrinking cities in Japan 178 Tetsuji Uemura 14 Towards brighter futures for European small and medium-sized towns: what can social innovation contribute? 193 Marco Bontje, Nicola Bacon, David Bole and Claire Gordon 15 Shrinking cities and cross-border context: the example of the twin cities of Forbach (Moselle, France) and Völklingen (Saarland, Germany) 208 Frédérique Morel-Doridat PART III GREENING/RIGHTSIZING SHRINKING CITIES 16 Adaptation of infrastructures in shrinking cities: a review 222 Fanny Augis 17 A growing field in shrinking cities: a literature review on shrinkage and urban green space 236 Olivia Lewis 18 Utilising solar energy and technology production-oriented strategies in shrinking cities 250 Simone Di Pietro 19 Urban green innovation and revitalisation of declining areas and vacant spaces in shrinking cities 264 José G. Vargas-Hernández and Patricia M.I. Hammer 20 Reflections on the challenges for public value capture in shrinking cities 278 Sílvia Sousa and Paulo Pinho 21 Carbon mitigation for shrinking cities 292 Helen Mulligan 22 Regrowth challenges of English cities in the context of flood risk: a discussion on flood resilience and regrowth in Hull, United Kingdom 308 Faeeza Mackay, Stephen Platt and Fulvio Domenico Lopane 23 Cultural branding and adaptive reuse in shrinking cities: a comparative study of Turin, Italy and Lowell, USA 324 Justin B. Hollander and Marissa G. Meaney PART IV REGROWING SHRINKING CITIES 24 Variations of urban regrowth – systematising driving factors and contextual conditions: the European perspective 338 Annegret Haase, Marco Bontje, Dieter Rink, Chris Couch, Szymon Marcińczak, Petr Rumpel and Manuel Wolff 25 Issues, diffusion and solutions of shrinkage in French heritage towns’ centres 353 Alix de La Gaignonnière 26 Pop Up City and interim uses 367 Terry Schwarz 27 Smart cities as a substitute industry revitalisation approach to shrinking cities in Germany? 381 Jakob Schackmar 28 Refugees in shrinking cities: the role of place and belonging in refugee-led revitalisation 395 Norma Schemschat 29 Old industrial cities striving to attract and retain knowledge workers: a case study from Spain 409 Simón Sánchez-Moral, Alfonso Arellano and David Moreno 30 Data, policy and segregation, open source data and catalysing inclusive culture-led economic development: contextualising smart city 422 Jasmin Aber Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds light on the strategies implemented by social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on better understanding how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world.Top international scholars introduce the main features of urban movements from countries and cities around the world, including across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, to highlight their diversity as well as the multiple scales through which they are employed. The Handbook first documents the concrete forms of contemporary urban movements, before highlighting new developments in the field, particularly in the face of new forms of communication, and finally examines the specificity of contemporary urban movements in the context of emerging unexpected local and global challenges.With a broad range of case studies and in-depth coverage of key issues, this Handbook is critical reading for urban studies and social movement studies scholars. The practical advice offered throughout also makes this an invigorating read for representatives of international institutions working on urban policies and development, as well as urban activists looking for a more in-depth study of the field.Trade Review‘Academic interest in urban social movements has surged around the world since the notion was first introduced in the early 1970s. This Handbook gathers novel as well as retrospective knowledge on (the outcomes of) these movements, and helps to reveal the phases, patterns, cycles and convergences shaping the plethora of struggles around the right to the city.’ -- Margit Mayer, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin, Germany‘This Handbook brings to the fore the structural roots of urban conflicts and identities, in creative tension with human agency. Covering an admirably broad range of cases, not restricted to the West, and recognizing the temporal dimension inherent to both urban conflicts and theories on urban dynamics, Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel have edited a collection that will appeal to a broad readership across the social sciences.’ -- Mario Diani, University of Trento, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements 1 Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel PART I THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN FRONT OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION AND STATE PLANNING 2 Beyond the localism of urban social movements 14 Pierre Hamel 3 A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles 28 Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi and Kerstin Jacobsson 4 Urban battlegrounds: strategies of action and drivers of participation in radical movements in Italy 43 Carlo Genova 5 Urban social movements and regulation theory: tenant protest in Berlin 58 Lisa Vollmer PART II FIGHTING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES, RACISM, EXCLUSION, AND POVERTY IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD 6 Spatial segregation during ‘financial apartheid’: Reclaim the City and its struggle for housing in Cape Town, South Africa 81 Antje Daniel 7 Tenants’ movements in Europe: from working-class struggles to marginalization 97 Dominika V. Polanska 8 Anti-eviction mobilizations in Barcelona, Montreal, and New York City 114 Marcos Ancelovici and Montserrat Emperador Badimon 9 Hands up, don’t shoot: safety and the city in the twenty-first century 131 Mary Bernstein and Jordan McMillan 10 Rural–urban migration and the right to the city: urban social movements in the informal settlements of Namibia and Ghana 148 Eric Yankson and Ada Adoley Allotey PART III URBAN MOVEMENTS AND CITY LIFE IN RETROSPECT 11 Brazil’s urban social movements and urban transformations in perspective 168 Abigail Friendly 12 Squatting, a SWOT analysis 185 Hans Pruijt 13 Building real utopias: urban grassroots activism, emotions and prefigurative politics 199 Tommaso Gravante 14 Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization of community through place-based social media: the future will not be Instagrammed 214 Ashleigh Weeden PART IV IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP THROUGH EXPERIENCING VARIOUS MODELS OF SOLIDARITY 15 Claiming urban citizenship: rights and practices 232 Maciej Kowalewski 16 Beyond co-optation and autonomy: the experience of two Argentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn 248 Francisco Longa 17 The rise of urban resistance movements and spatialized oppression: the Gezi legacy 265 Aysegul Can PART V COLLECTIVE ACTION, URBAN POLITICS AND/ OR URBAN POLICIES 18 The everyday politics of the urban commons: ambivalent political possibilities in the dialectical, evolving and selective urban context 284 Iolanda Bianchi 19 The 2019–2020 Chilean protests: the emergence of a movement of urban memories 300 Alicia Olivari and Manuela Badilla 20 Rage against the machine: how twenty-first century political machines constitute their own opposition 315 Stephanie Ternullo and Jeffrey N. Parker 21 Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its discontents: rising urban activism in Seoul 330 Chungse Jung 22 Political engagement of urban social movements: a road to decolonization or recolonization of urban management? 343 Tomasz Sowada 23 Neoliberal urban governance and slum dweller movements: the mutual fragmentation of policies and community-based organizations in the city of Buenos Aires 363 Joaquín Andrés Benitez, María Cristina Cravino, Maximiliano Duarte and Carla Fainstein

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Book SynopsisDuring the early 1970s Richard Mabey explored crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb-sites, navigated inner city canals and car parks, and discovered there was scarcely a nook in our urban landscape incapable of supporting life. The Unofficial Countryside is a timely reminder of how nature flourishes against the odds, surviving in the most obscure and surprising places. Originally published in 1973 this landmark book was described by Iain Sinclair as 'a proper reckoning, the Domesday Book of a topography too fascinating to be left alone.' This beautiful new edition forms part of the Richard Mabey library, published to celebrate the author's 80th birthday and has a cover by the artist Michael Kirkman.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is about socio-spatial theory in, and the nature of, Nordic geography. From both historical and contemporary perspectives, the book engages with theorisations of geography in the Nordic countries. Including chapters by geographers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, it reflects how theories about the relations between the social and the spatial have been developed, adopted and critiqued in Nordic human geography in relation to a wide range of themes, concepts and approaches. The book also traces institutional developments, distinct geographical traditions and intellectual histories, as well as authors’ own experiences as geographers in and beyond the Nordic area. The chapters together introduce and engage with debates and discussions that permeate Nordic geography and allows readers a glimpse of geographical thinking and the role of socio-spatial theory in the Nordic countries. By providing insights into how geographical ideas emerge, travel and are translated and adapted in specific contexts, the book contributes to debates about historical-geographical situatedness and theorisations of geography.Table of Contents1. Geographies and theories of geography: An introductionPeter Jakobsen, Erik Jönsson and Henrik Gutzon Larsen2. Sublimated expansionism? Living space ideas in Nordic small state geopoliticsHenrik Gutzon Larsen and Carl Marklund3. Translating Space: The rise and fall of central place theory and planning-geography in SwedenPär Wikman and Marcus Mohall4. Territorial structure: An early Marxist theorisation of geographyPeter Jakobsen and Henrik Gutzon Larsen5. Synthesis of physical and human geography: Necessary and impossible?Arild Holt-Jensen6. Politicisation of nature in Nordic geographyAri Aukusti Lehtinen7. In search of Nordic Landscape Geography: Tensions, combinations and relations.Tomas Germundsson, Erik Jönsson and Gunhild Setten8. Trends and challenges in Nordic Gender GeographyGunnel Forsberg and Susanne Stenbacka9. Economic Geography of innovation and regional developmentBjørn T. Asheim, Høgni Kalsø Hansen and Arne Isaksen10. The Socio-Spatial articulations of tourism studies in Nordic geographyEdward H. Huijbens and Dieter K. Müller11. The spatialities of the Nordic compact city Per Gunnar Røe, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen Kjærås and Håvard Haarstad12. Struggling with conceptual framings to understand Swedish displacement processesCarina Listerborn and Guy Baeten13. Spatial justice and social reproduction in the Nordic peripheryMadeleine Eriksson and Aina Tollefsen14. Nordic geographies of nation and nationhoodJouni Häkli and Mette Strømsø15. Urban space and Everyday Life: A personal theoretical trajectory within Nordic social and cultural geographyKirsten Simonsen16. The institutionalization of regions: An autobiographic view on the making of socio-spatial theory in the Nordic periphery Anssi Paasi

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a thorough description of the challenges posed by increasing global urbanization. In addition, comprehensive perspectives are offered on how the contemporary urban challenges of our time are tackled by existing designers, architects, urban planners, and landscape architects thereby considering climate change, migration, resilience, politics, and environmental degradation. It includes insights from environmental design, geography, strategic planning, and engineering design. It goes beyond the jargon of technical innovation, and exposes the political, social and physical effects of digitalizing the world in smart cities. The book focuses on the application of geospatial technology of smart cities – including system design for basic services, real-time control and the Internet of Things. It highlights the planning of land use, strategic development, and ecosystem-based knowledge to enhance economic growth and healthy urban environment and smart city management. The book also shows the contradictory aspects of smart city studies, and provides useful insights into the creation and execution of policies to strengthen decision-making processes in smart cities. This book leads the reader to a greater understanding of smart city growth, both theoretical and realistic and as such it provides an interesting read for urban geographers, urban designers and planners, environmental specialists, practitioners, students.Table of ContentsSection- I- Introduction: 1: Urbanism and Sustainable Development: A Dynamic Approach: Vasco Barbosa, Aldo Alvarez Risco.- Section-II –Urban and Smart Cities Land use Dynamics and Changing Biodiversity: 2: Problems of Habitat Destruction and Shrinkage of Wetlands, Change in Forest Cover: Nestor Asiamah,James Hayes.- 3: Resource Allocation, Depletion and Changing Urbanization and Future Smart Cities: Mohamed Elhoseny, Beata Wieteska-Rosiak.- 4: Urban and Smart Cities Changing Bio-diversity related to Water Scarcity and Flood using of geospatial technology- Case Study: Rostam Saberifar.- 5: Remote sensing and GIS-based study on Soil Erosion, Land Contamination, Land Degradation and Smart Cities: Narsimha Adimalla.- Section-III –Climate Change and Urban and Smart Cities Health and Waste Management: 6: Web-based Analysis of Air, and Water Pollution in Urabn and Smart Cities- Case Study: G.K. Panda, Sailesh Samanta.- 7: Smart Cities and Associates Solid Waste, Bio medical Waste, E-Waste issues and Management: Md. Atiqur Rahman,Jogesh Laishram.- 8: Smart Cities and Associated Problems of Temperature increase and heat island, Issues Related with Global Warming using spatial information: Abul Basar, Nils Ruther, Ashwani Tiwari.- Section-IV –Advances on Urbanism and Smart Cities Socio-Environmental Perspectives.- 9: Urban Population Growth, Urban Sprawl, Smart City and Associated Problems: Meysam Argany, Clement Chipenda.- 10: Artificial Intelligence and Urban Hazards, Smart City Environment and Societal impact: V.Kasthuri Thilagam,Uday Chatterjee, B. Chakraborty.- 11: Using Geospatial Application and Urban/Smart CityEnergy Conservation- Case study: Scott Berson, Jorge Cerda.- Section -V –Urban Environmental Management, Solutions, and Sustainable Smart Cities: 12: Urban Ecosystem Services, Environmental Planning, and Smart Cities Management: Jay Mittal, Madhuri Sharma.- 13: Smart Cities Urban Governance, Green Space and Policy Planning to Achieve Sustainability: Anthony Mushinge, V.Kasthuri Thilagam.- 14: Smart City Planning and Management and Internet of Things (IoT): Somnath Ghosal, V.R. Sumathi.- 15: Sustainable Smart City Planning, Innovation, and Management: Adekunle Olusola Adeyemo, R.M.K.Ratnayake.- 16: Future Strategy for Sustainable Smart Cities: Dinesh Kumar Kandaswamy, Ahmed Alhuseen, Amir Shakibamanesh.- Section-VI- Conclusions: 17: Concluding Chapter: Uday Chatterjee, Madhuri Sharma, Sushobhan Majumdar, Jay Mittal.

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Book SynopsisScientific practices of removing waste in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems which reproduce existing social hierarchies. Thus going beyond a techno-managerial approach in waste management, Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai, India. She undertakes an ethnographic journey to the city's most unwanted space, a dumping site, to reveal how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary formal and informal practices. Offering new insights on topics of urban marginality, informality, urban planning this book will attract scholars from sociology, urban studies, and human geography.

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Book SynopsisThe increasing platformisation of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.

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Book SynopsisDepicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change the conception of a geopolitical space?Table of ContentsPreface; Research Interest; On the Symposium and Exhibition; Acknowledgments; Shifts in Mapping; Introduction to the essay section; Shifts in Mapping: Two Concepts which have Changed the World View; Atlas of Indexical Cities: A Personal Search Engine for the World; Reflections on the Cartographic Languages When collectively mapping possible worlds; Critical Map Visualizations; The Digital Memory of Palmyra: (How) can data images be critical?; Design through Graduation; Radical Cartography; Biographies; Introduction to the Exhibition: STRATEGIES OF NEOGEOGRAPHY IN RECENT MEDIA ART; Works/Artists in the Exhibition.

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Book SynopsisTeheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples for public spaces with a history of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic transitions. Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS). By analysing the planning instruments used for POPS in both cases, their uniqueness as well as strengths and weaknesses are revealed. Based on the results this study offers a number of policy recommendations for cities that encounter similar problems.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abstract; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Public space in transition; Research design and methodology; Challenges of providing and managing public space in a transitional context; Planning instruments for POPS in Teheran-ro, Seoul; Planning instruments for POPS in Mediaspree area, Berlin; Outcomes of planning instruments for POPS; Conclusion; Glossary; Appendix; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisIn a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialized residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to them. Based on rich interviews, photographs, and archival research, Julie Chamberlain rejects the usual silence in German urban studies around racialization and examines how constructing some groups as "not belonging" has shaped Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg's past and present. For racialized long-time residents, it is Heimat, a space of belonging in the context of exclusion. As social mix policy threatens that belonging, residents explore their hopes and their fears for the future of an urban space where gentrification looms.

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Book SynopsisThis book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural transformation. Focusing on the systematic diagnosis of new-type urbanization, urban-rural land use, industrial structure transformation and public facilities allocation, this book explores the long-term mechanism, innovative model, and scientific way of urban-rural land optimal allocation and spatial reconstruction and develops urban-rural transformation geography. In terms of the contents, the book constructs the theory and method system of urban-rural transformation geography, analyzes the process, pattern, mechanism, and response of urban-rural transformation, reveals the evolution characteristics, types, and regional differences of urban-rural regional system, and finally puts forward the optimal decision-making of urban-rural transformation.This book not only provides references for graduate and researchers in geography, regional development, urban and rural planning, resource science, environmental science, human-earth system science, sustainability science, and other related fields but also guides the decision-making of planners and government officials.Table of ContentsResearch background and value of urban-rural transformation.- Research progress and practical enlightenment of urban-rural transformation.- Geographical basis and theoretical exploration of urban-rural transformation.- Research methods of urban-rural transformation geography.- Strategic objectives and regional orientation of urban-rural transformation in China.- Spatial-temporal pattern of urban-rural transformation in Bohai Rim region.- Resource and environmental effects of urban-rural transformation in China.- Optimization ideas and system innovation of urban-rural transformation.- Conclusion and prospect.

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