Description
Book SynopsisThe Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. By asking: whose city? whose development? the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially and spatially constructed hierarchies in global South cities. The Reader's thematic structure, where editorial introductions accompany selected texts, examines the issues and concerns that urban dwellers, planners, and policy makers face in the c
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I. The City Experienced Part II. Making the "Third World" City 2. Historical Underpinnings 3. Development and Urbanization Part III. The City Lived 4. Migratory Fields 5. Urban Economy 6. Housing 7. Residential Developments Part IV. The City Environment 8. Basic Services 9 Infrastructure and Mega Projects 10. Cities, Risk and Violence Part V. Planned Interventions and Contestations 11. Governance 12. Participation 13. Urban Citizenship 14. Transferring Knowledge
