Description
Book SynopsisCities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.
- Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and inOuagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Considers the ways in which a city's relationships with other places influences its urban development
- Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that move beyond discussions of economic and policy factors
- Offers aclear and concise narrative accompanied by more than 45 photos and maps
Trade Review“This would be especially valuable in continuing the study of urban developments in the post-communist environment.” (Geographica Helvetica, 1 May 2015)
Table of ContentsList of Figures vii
List of Tables x
Acronyms xi
Series Editors’ Preface xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements xiv
1 Comparing Cities in Relations 1
Relating Hanoi, Ouagadougou … and Palermo 4
A Brief Introduction to Two Distant Cousins 5
World-city Research Beyond the West 9
Relational Geographies 12
Comparing Cities 17
The Structure of the Book 26
2 Trajectories of Urban Change in Two Ordinary Cities 31
Regime Change in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 33
Forms of Relatedness 42
Conclusion 55
3 Transnational Policy Relations 60
Mobile Planners and City Networks 63
Concrete and Paper in Hanoi’s Urban Development 64
Ouagadougou’s Competing Worlds of Policy Relations 76
Conclusion 87
4 Public Space Policies on the Move 92
A Repertoire of Translocal Connections 94
Public Space: Understandings, Practices and Things 97
Translocal Connections and Public Space Policy in the Making 103
The Politics of Translocal Connections 108
Traveling Participation and Public Space Design 110
Conclusion 116
5 Connecting to Circuits of Architectural Design 120
Stretched Geographies of Design 121
Circuits of Architectural Design in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 123
Hanoi: Design Spaces of an Emerging Economy 125
Ouagadougou: Architectures of Development 131
Grounding Design 136
Conclusion: Transnational Learning Processes and “Banal” Nationalism 140
6 On Road Interchanges and Shopping Malls: What Traveling Types Do 145
Modernization as Morality and Power 147
Modernization Through Ouagadougou’s Built Environment 150
Staging New Social Identities in Hanoi’s Shopping Malls 159
Conclusion 166
Conclusion: For a Politics of Urban Relatedness 171
Comparing Processes, Worlds of Relations, and Relational Effects 172
The Evolving Relational Worlds of Cities 175
An Assets-based Politics of Relatedness 178
References 181
Index 196
