Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities

Contents:

1. Conceptualizing the Emerging 21st Century City
Kris Bezdecny and Kevin Archer

Part I Emerging City Theory
2. Strategic simplification and the urban politics of defining 'the city'
John Lauermann

3. Creating environmentally sustainable cities: not an easy task
Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery

4. Antifragility and the Transformative Idea of Slow Urbanism
Richard Bower

5. Uneven geographical development and the city: Conceptualizing the fractalization of space
Kris Bezdecny

Part II Cities as spaces of emerging power
6. China's New Urbanization Plan: crafting China's new cities or more of the cliche?
Yin-wah Chu

7. The Impact of China on African Cities: Potentials for Development
James T. Murphy, Padraig Carmody, Richard Grant and Francis Owusu

8. Quality of Life in Indian Cities
Rumi Aijaz

9. Emerging Digital Cities of East Asia: Seoul, Singapore and Shanghai
Barney Warf

Part III Cities as Spaces of Emerging Economies
10. Mega Urban Developments in the Arabian Peninsula for a Post-Oil Future
Burkay Pasin and Asli Ceylan Oner

11. Urbanization of Poverty: The African City's Challenge of the Century
Owiti A. K'Akumu

12. Planned to Fail: Creating the Global South in American South Communities
William G. Holt

13. The U.S.-Mexico Transfrontier Metropolis: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations
Lawrence A. Herzog

Part IV Cities of Emerging Social Dynamics
14. Inclusive Growth and the Urban Question: Some Lessons from Asia
Ravi Ghadge

15. The institutionalization of the right to the city: The Spanish case
Vitor Peiteado Fernandez

16. Border cities: urban growth and planning at the national periphery
Peter D. A. Wood

17. Loftification: The Refurbished Gentrification Dynamic
Christiana Saldana

Part V Cities as Spaces of Emerging Technologies
18. Data-driven Divides: Smart Cities and Techno-racial Segregation
Monica M. Brannon

19. Urban Renewal in the Hybrid City: Using Data for Development
Emily Fekete

20. Applying Critical Cartography Redress Urban Disinvestment and Financial Access for Communities
Jason Richardson and Bruce Coffyn Mitchell

21. The Spreadable City: Urban Exploration and Connective Media
Andre Jansson and Maja Klausen

Index

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• Planeamento urbano e municipal
• Comunidades urbanas
• Estudos regionais
• Obras de referência

Cities; Urbanization; Urban Planning; Urban Development; Urban Dynamics; Emerging Cities