ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition.
It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice.
The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, political studies, planning, and urban studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |26 pages
Introduction
part I|142 pages
Inheritance: Traditions in Comparative Urban Research
chapter 1|15 pages
Beyond the City Limits
chapter 3|15 pages
Comparative Urban Studies and African Studies at the Crossroads
chapter 4|14 pages
Comparative Urban Studies in Asia
chapter 7|12 pages
Citizenship and Inequality in the Post-Colonial City
part II|114 pages
Methods and Research Design
chapter 14|14 pages
From Object Biographies to Data-Centred Assemblages
chapter 19|12 pages
Politics and Governance in Metropolitan Areas
part III|116 pages
Contexts
chapter 25|9 pages
Social Mix, Super-Diversity, and Interactions in the Neighborhood
chapter 28|13 pages
Weak Comparisons
chapter 29|11 pages
The Relevance of Local Factors for Understanding Italy
part IV|94 pages
Connections
chapter 30|11 pages
‘Coexisting Heterogeneity’
chapter 31|13 pages
Socialist Worldmaking
chapter 34|12 pages
Genetic Comparisons
chapter 36|17 pages
Allegory, Psychasthenia, Horizon
part V|107 pages
Experiments