Research Agenda for Cities

Contents:

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 Martinez

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

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• Comunidades urbanas
• Planeamento urbano e municipal
• Geografia humana

City; urban issues; urbanization; urban research; urban scholarship