{"product_id":"many-urbanisms-9780231204071","title":"Many Urbanisms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMany Urbanisms \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent work of synthesis, and Murray is a gifted writer. In this book, he integrates a massive amount of urban theory literature in order to emphasize the differences between cities and to challenge the notion of a North to South order within contemporary urbanization. -- Jason Hackworth, author of \u003ci\u003eManufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis well-researched book makes an outstanding contribution to urban and policy studies...Highly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eA fantastic and thoroughly enjoyable book. * Urbanities *\u003cbr\u003eHighly readable and sharply argued. * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Rethinking Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Conventional Urban Theory at a Crossroads\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Narrow Preoccupations of Conventional Urban Studies\u003cbr\u003e2. The Universalizing Pretensions of Mainstream Urban Studies: Generic Cities and the Convergence Thesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Trajectories of Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century: A First Approximation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Globalizing Cities with World-Class Aspirations: The Emergence of the Postindustrial Tourist-Entertainment City\u003cbr\u003e4. Struggling Postindustrial Cities in Decline\u003cbr\u003e5. Sprawling Megacities of Hypergrowth: The Unplanned Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e6. Building Cities on a Grand Scale: The Instant Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. The Future of Urbanism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e7. Conclusion: Urban Futures\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524657324375,"sku":"9780231204071","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231204071.jpg?v=1731857640","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/many-urbanisms-9780231204071","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}