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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. Nowadays, the majority of people live in cities, and these cities constitute the heart of the global political economy. In a time of planetary urbanization, this contemporary and visionary book provides a critical assessment of the key areas of urban scholarship across the globe.
Following a comprehensive introduction, 11 stimulating chapters from expert contributors examine a range of important topics, including: sustainability, gentrification, feminist interventions, globalization, security and food issues. Ensuring a global coverage, a further eight regionally informed expert reviews examine recent urban research in sub-Saharan Africa, South America, South and East Asia, the Middle East, Australia and Eastern Europe. These chapters show how urban growth and resurgence unfolds in different ways across the different regions of the world. This Research Agenda provides polemical assessments of current work and signposts for future research.
This book will be an indispensable and accessible guide to students and scholars working in urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology, urban planning and comparative urbanization. City leaders will also find the case studies enlightening and informative.
Contributors include: J. Beaverstock, L. Benton-Short, G. Brown, J. Farrer, R. Freestone, O. Golubchikov, A. Gorman-Murray, B. Hanlon, P. Hubbard, T. Hutton, A. Kanna, M. Keeley, Y.-H. Kim, L. Kong, L. Martínez, C.J. Nash, L. Peake, E. Pieterse, B. Randolph, X. Ren, J.R. Short, T.J. Vicino, A. Wheeler, D.M. Wood, O. Woods, E. Wyly
Trade Review'Where are we now - and where are we going in research on cities? What are the pressing issues and how should we approach and understand them? This book is lively, challenging and offers novel points of theoretical and empirical departure for its exploration of the urban moment. It ranges across food, feminism and surveillance and encompasses Brazil, China and the Middle East. The collection succeeds in having a generally consistent style - relaxed, critical and nicely nuanced in its suggestion of new research questions.' --Ray Forrest, University of Bristol, UK and City University of Hong Kong
Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the urban moment John Rennie Short Part I The global city 2. The global city and its discontents Yeong-Hyun Kim 3. The city of global flows Jonathan V. Beaverstock 4. Urban surveillance after the end of globalization David Murakami Wood Part II The lived city 5. The queer city Gavin Brown 6. Sex and the city: sexuality and urban order/disorder Phil Hubbard, Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash 7. Feminism and the urban Linda Peake 8. Urban foodways: a research agenda James Farrer Part III Changes in the city 9. Gentrification Elvin Wyly 10. Suburbs Bernadette Hanlon 11. The creative city Tom Hutton 12. Towards more sustainable cities Lisa Benton–Short and Melissa Keeley Part IV Cities in place 13. The urban pulse of the global south: the case of Cali, Colombia Lina Martínez 14. The city in Brazil Thomas J. Vicino 15. Cities in China and India: disjuncture, master-concepts, and comparisons Xufei Ren 16. Mobile cities, modelling policies: importing/exporting the Singapore ‘model’ of development Orlando Woods and Lily Kong 17. The city in sub-Saharan Africa Edgar Pieterse 18. Main trends in contemporary urban studies of the Middle East and North Africa Ahmed Kanna 19. Defining and refining the research agenda for Australian cities Rob Freestone, Bill Randolph and Andrew Wheeler 20. The post-socialist city: insights from the spaces of radical societal change Oleg Golubchikov Index
