This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and “Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and where the Global South as a distinctive geopolitical entity has largely been fractured into a …

2014年10月9日 · The Cities of the Global South Reader pulls together a diverse set of readings from scholars across the world, some of which have been written specially for the volume, to provide an essential resource for a broad interdisciplinary readership at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in urban geography, urban sociology, and urban planning as ...

The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the field 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.

2007年2月1日 · It has reviewed a number of emerging perspectives in the global/world cities literature that reveal the highly divergent experiences that cities have had with global economic integration, the ways in which the local interacts with and reshapes global influences, and the importance of understanding actors and interests in an analysis of urban ...

2020年7月1日 · This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and “Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and where the Global South as a distinctive geopolitical entity has largely been fractured into a multiplicity of domains and histories.

2014年10月10日 · The 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...

2020年7月30日 · This article offers a critical assessment of the present state of discourse on cities of global south. It identifies and examines five major themes found in the literature and shows both their cope…

2020年7月30日 · This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and “Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and where the...

2007年2月1日 · In the first section of the paper, I provide a brief review of critiques of the perspective of convergence, and then identify three emerging trends in theorizing global cities that hold the key to analysis that better accounts for local agency: a growing focus on the diversity of cities’ experience with globalization; recognition of the ...