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      The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics
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      The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics

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      The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics book

      Edited ByKevin Ward, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Byron Miller, David Wilson
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 23 April 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712468
      Pages 666
      eBook ISBN 9781315712468
      Subjects Geography, Politics & International Relations, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences, Urban Studies
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      Ward, K., Jonas, A.E.G., Miller, B., & Wilson, D. (Eds.). (2018). The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712468

      ABSTRACT

      The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the interdisciplinary field of urban politics, drawing upon a range of examples from within and across the Global North and Global South.

      This handbook is organized into nine interrelated sections, with an introductory chapter setting out the rationale, aims and structure of the Handbook, and short introductory commentaries at the beginning of each part. It questions the eliding of ‘urban politics’ into the ‘politics of the city’, reconsidering the usefulness of the distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ urban politics, considering issues of ‘class’, ‘gender’, ‘race’ and the ways in which they intersect, appear and reappear in matters of urban politics, how best to theorize the roles of capital, the state and other actors, such as social movements, in the production of the city and, finally, issues of doing urban political research. The various chapters explore the issues of urban politics of economic development, environment and nature in the city, governance and planning, the politics of labour as well as living spaces. The concluding sections of the Handbook examine the politics over alternative visions of cities of the future and provide concluding discussions and reflections, particularly on the futures for urban politics in an increasingly ‘global’ and multidisciplinary context.

      With over forty-five contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of current conceptual and theoretical approaches and future developments in urban politics. It is a key reference to all researchers and policy-makers with an interest in urban politics.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|10 pages

      Spaces of urban politics

      An introduction
      ByAndrew E.G. Jonas, Byron Miller, Kevin Ward, David Wilson

      part I|48 pages

      Approaching the space(s) of urban politics

      chapter 2|12 pages

      Here, there and everywhere

      Rethinking the urban of urban politics
      ByAllan Cochrane

      chapter 3|9 pages

      Place-based or place-positioned?

      Framing and making the spaces of urban politics
      ByDeborah G. Martin

      chapter 4|12 pages

      Ambivalence of the urban commons

      ByTheresa Enright, Ugo Rossi

      chapter 5|12 pages

      The smart state as utopian space for urban politics

      ByYonn Dierwechter

      part II|48 pages

      Spaces of economic development

      chapter 6|8 pages

      Pro-growth urban politics and the inner workings of public-private partnerships

      ByChristopher Mele, Matthew H. McLeskey

      chapter 7|15 pages

      The urban politics of strategic coupling in global production networks

      ByRachel Bok, Neil M. Coe

      chapter 8|11 pages

      The sky is not the limit

      Negotiating height and density in Toronto’s condominium boom
      ByUte Lehrer, Peter Pantalone

      chapter 9|11 pages

      Digital technologies and reconfiguration of urban space

      ByBarney Warf

      part III|74 pages

      Spaces of the environment and nature

      chapter 10|12 pages

      Climate science and the city

      Consensus, calculation and security in Seattle, Washington
      ByJennifer L. Rice

      chapter 11|12 pages

      Democratizing the production of urban environments

      Working in, against and beyond the state, from Durban to Berlin
      ByJames Angel, Alex Loftus

      chapter 12|12 pages

      Politics of urban gardening

      ByMarit Rosol

      chapter 13|11 pages

      Just green spaces of urban politics

      A pragmatist approach
      ByRyan Holifield

      chapter 14|10 pages

      From sustainability to resilience

      The hidden costs of recent socio-environmental change in cities of the Global North
      ByDavid Saurí

      chapter 15|14 pages

      Transforming Rainey Street

      The decoupling of equity from environment in Austin’s smart growth agenda
      ByEliot Tretter, Elizabeth J. Mueller

      part IV|48 pages

      Spaces of governing and planning

      chapter 16|13 pages

      Cities on a grand scale

      Instant urbanism at the start of the twenty-first century
      ByMartin J. Murray

      chapter 17|9 pages

      Urbanization, planning and the possibility of being post-growth

      ByJason Hackworth

      chapter 18|11 pages

      Troubled buildings, distressed markets

      The urban governance of the US foreclosure crisis
      ByPhilip Ashton

      chapter 19|12 pages

      Housing the banlieue in global times

      French public housing and spaces between neoliberalization and hybridization
      ByDavid Giband

      part V|76 pages

      Spaces of labour

      chapter 20|13 pages

      Roll-against neoliberalism and labour organizing in the post-2008 crisis

      ByLuis L.M. Aguiar, Yanick Noiseux

      chapter 21|14 pages

      Urbanization as a bordering process

      Non-citizen labour and precarious construction work in the Greater Toronto Area
      ByMichelle Buckley, Emily Reid-Musson

      chapter 22|12 pages

      Organizing the ruins

      The thin institutional geography of labour in the US Midwest
      ByMarc Doussard

      chapter 23|11 pages

      Mobilities and moralities of domestic work in Indonesian cities

      ByDavid Jordhus-Lier, Debbie Prabawati

      chapter 24|11 pages

      Street work as a key site of urban politics

      ByIlda Lindell

      chapter 25|12 pages

      Urban informality and the new politics of precarity

      Day labourer activism in the USA
      ByNik Theodore

      part VI|84 pages

      Spaces of living

      chapter 26|13 pages

      The political spaces of urban poverty management

      ByJoshua Evans, Geoff DeVerteuil

      chapter 27|16 pages

      Urban community gardens as new spaces of living

      ByRina Ghose, Margaret Pettygrove

      chapter 28|14 pages

      Envisioning liveability and do-it-together urban development

      ByHelen Jarvis

      chapter 29|11 pages

      Infrastructural citizenship

      Spaces of living in Cape Town, South Africa
      ByCharlotte Lemanski

      chapter 30|14 pages

      The politics of urban agriculture

      Sustainability, governance and contestation
      ByNathan McClintock, Christiana Miewald, Eugene McCann

      chapter 31|14 pages

      Retroactive utopia

      Class and the urbanization of self-management in Poland
      ByKacper Pobłocki

      part VII|76 pages

      Spaces of circulation

      chapter 32|11 pages

      Circulating risks

      Coastal cities and the spectre of climate change risk
      ByKevin Fox Gotham, Clare Cannon

      chapter 33|12 pages

      The logics and politics of circulation

      Exploring the urban and non-urban spaces of Amazon.com
      ByMarkus Hesse

      chapter 34|10 pages

      Circulating experiments

      Urban living labs and the politics of sustainability
      ByJames Evans, Harriet Bulkeley, Yuliya Voytenko, Kes McCormick, Steven Curtis

      chapter 35|13 pages

      Assembling and re-assembling Asian carp

      The Chicago Area Waterways System as a space of urban politics
      ByJulie Cidell

      chapter 36|12 pages

      Google buses and uber cars

      The politics of tech mobility and the future of urban liveability
      ByJason Henderson

      chapter 37|14 pages

      Making Multi-Racial Counter-Publics

      Towards egalitarian spaces in urban politics
      ByHelga Leitner, Samuel Nowak

      part VIII|74 pages

      Spaces of identity

      chapter 38|11 pages

      A City of Migrants

      Migration and urban identity politics
      ByVirginie Mamadouh

      chapter 39|13 pages

      Class, territory and politics in the american city

      ByKevin R. Cox

      chapter 40|12 pages

      Urban middle-class shifting sensibilities in neoliberal Buenos Aires

      ByCarolina Sternberg

      chapter 41|14 pages

      Compassionate capitalism

      Tax breaks, tech companies and the transformation of San Francisco
      ByLauren Alfrey, France Winddance Twine

      chapter 42|10 pages

      Gendering urban protest

      Politics, bodies and space
      ByFran Tonkiss

      chapter 43|11 pages

      Queering urban politics and ecologies

      ByWill McKeithen, Larry Knopp, Michael Brown

      part IX|62 pages

      Spaces of utopia and dystopia

      chapter 44|13 pages

      Dystopian dynamics at work

      The creative validation of urban space
      ByUlf Strohmayer

      chapter 45|10 pages

      Deconstructing modern utopias

      Sustainable urbanism, participation and profit in the ‘European City’
      BySamuel Mössner, Rob Krueger

      chapter 46|12 pages

      Dystopian spaces and Roma imaginaries

      The case of young Roma in Slovenia and Romania
      ByStuart C. Aitken, Jasmine Arpagian

      chapter 47|12 pages

      Mobile futures

      Urban revitalization and the aesthetics of transportation
      ByTheresa Enright

      chapter 48|12 pages

      Reimagining the urban as a dystopic resilient space

      Scalar materialities in climate knowledge, planning and politics
      ByAndrew Kythreotis
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