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
part I|48 pages
Approaching the space(s) of urban politics
part II|48 pages
Spaces of economic development
chapter 8|11 pages
The sky is not the limit
part III|74 pages
Spaces of the environment and nature
chapter 10|12 pages
Climate science and the city
chapter 11|12 pages
Democratizing the production of urban environments
chapter 14|10 pages
From sustainability to resilience
chapter 15|14 pages
Transforming Rainey Street
part IV|48 pages
Spaces of governing and planning
chapter 16|13 pages
Cities on a grand scale
chapter 18|11 pages
Troubled buildings, distressed markets
chapter 19|12 pages
Housing the banlieue in global times
part V|76 pages
Spaces of labour
chapter 21|14 pages
Urbanization as a bordering process
chapter 22|12 pages
Organizing the ruins
chapter 25|12 pages
Urban informality and the new politics of precarity
part VI|84 pages
Spaces of living
part VII|76 pages
Spaces of circulation
chapter 33|12 pages
The logics and politics of circulation
chapter 35|13 pages
Assembling and re-assembling Asian carp
chapter 36|12 pages
Google buses and uber cars
part VIII|74 pages
Spaces of identity
chapter 41|14 pages
Compassionate capitalism
part IX|62 pages
Spaces of utopia and dystopia