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Book SynopsisUrbanization in a Global Context is a contributed text that helps Canadian students understand the process of urbanization by examining cities outside Canada across the global North and South.
Table of ContentsTables and Figures Preface Acknowledgements Contributors 1: Introduction: Global Urbanization and Urban Futures, Alison L. Bain and Linda Peake PART I: The "Infinite Variety" of the Urban Preface: Part I 2: Shifting Urban Contours: Understanding a World of Growing and Shrinking Cities, Kenneth Cardenas and Philip Kelly 3: Suburbanization Worldwide, Richard Harris and Roger Keil 4: The Right to the City: "The Slum" and Informal Urbanisms, Katharine Rankin, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, and Sabin Ninglehku 5: "Instant" Cities? Rapid Urbanization and Spectacular Urbanisms, Penn Tsz Ting Ip and Michelle Buckley 6: Spaces of Division: Gentrification, Gated Communities, and Social Mixing, Nicholas Lynch and Yolande Pottie-Sherman PART II: Imposing Order? Plans, Policies, and Technologies Preface: Part II 7: Urban Planning, Indigenous Peoples, and Settler States, Ryan Walker and Sarem Nejad 8: Inequality, Austerity, and Volatile Urban Housing Markets, Alan Walks and Dylan Simone 9: Cultural Governance in Post-Industrial Cities, Alison L. Bain and Friederike Landau-Donnelly 10: Urban Policy and Planning for the Climate Crisis, Daniel Aldana Cohen 11: Smart Cities: Big Data and Surveillance, Brandon Hillier and Teresa Abbruzzese PART III: "Living Just Enough for the City" Preface: Part III 12: Refugees, Immigration, and Urban Citizenship, Pablo Bose 13: Women in Cities, Linda Peake and Geraldine Pratt 14: Urban Governance, Ethnicity, Race, and Youth, Beverley Mullings and Abdul Alim Habib 15: Healthy Cities, Godwin Arku, Richard Sadler, Laurence Simard-Gagnon, and Vera Chouinard 16: LGBTQ+ Urban Social Worlds, Julie A. Podmore, Alison L. Bain, and Chan Arun-Pina PART IV: Groundwork Preface: Part IV 17: More-Than-Human-Cities, Lauren Van Patter, Laura Shillington, and Alice Hovorka 18: Water, Waste, and Sanitation in Cities, Rebecca McMillan, Carrie L. Mitchell, and Kate Parizeau 19: Urban Transportation Infrastructure, Craig Townsend and Govind Gopakumar 20: Urban Citizenship and Digital Citizenship: Public Spaces and Resistance, Ebru Ustundag and Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz Glossary of Key Terms Index
