ABSTRACT
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 diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. By asking: “whose city? whose development?” the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially and spatially constructed hierarchies in global South cities. The Reader’s thematic structure, where editorial introductions accompany selected texts, examines the issues and concerns that urban dwellers, planners, and policy makers face in the contemporary world. These include the urban economy, housing, basic services, infrastructure, the role of non-state civil society-based actors, planned interventions and contestations, the role of diaspora capital, the looming problem of adapting to climate change, and the increasing spectre of violence in a post 9/11 transnational world.
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 well as disciplines related to international and development studies. Editorial commentaries that introduce the central issues for each theme summarize the state of the field and outline an associated bibliography. They will be of particular value for lecturers, students, and researchers, making the Cities of the Global South Reader a key text for those interested in understanding contemporary urbanization processes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|14 pages
The city experienced
chapter |13 pages
“Urban Lives: Stories from Tehran” 1
part II|52 pages
Making the “Third World” city
part Section 1|25 pages
Historical Underpinnings
chapter |11 pages
“Colonialism and Urban Development”
part Section 2|25 pages
Development and Urbanization
chapter |12 pages
“Development and the City”
chapter |7 pages
“World Cities, or a World of Ordinary Cities?”
part III|74 pages
The city lived
part Section 3|17 pages
Migratory Fields
chapter |1 pages
“Township Politics”
chapter |6 pages
“The Urbanity of Movement: Dynamic Frontiers in Contemporary Africa”
chapter |4 pages
“Migration and Privatization of Space and Power in Late Socialist China”
part Section 4|23 pages
Urban Economy
chapter |8 pages
“Working in the Streets of Cali, Colombia: Survival Strategy, Necessity, or Unavoidable Evil?”
chapter |9 pages
“Anchoring Transnational Flows: Hypermodern Spaces in the Global South”
part Section 5|32 pages
Housing
chapter |12 pages
“International Policy for Urban Housing Markets in the Global South since 1945”
chapter |6 pages
“Women and Self-Help Housing Projects: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis and Policy-Making”
chapter |7 pages
“The Suburbanization of Jakarta: A Concurrence of Economics and Ideology”
part |80 pages
The city environment
part Section 6|27 pages
Basic Urban Services
chapter |5 pages
“Environmental Problems of Third World Cities: A Global Issue Ignored?”
chapter |9 pages
“Victims, Villains and Fixers: he Urban Environment and Johannesburg's Poor”
chapter |7 pages
“Formalizing the Informal? The Transformation of Cairo's Refuse Collection System”
part Section 7|21 pages
Urban Infrastructure
chapter |6 pages
“Urban Transport Policy as if People and the Environment Mattered: Pedestrian Accessibility is the First Step”
chapter |4 pages
“Kinshasa and Its (Im)material Infrastructure”
chapter |5 pages
“‘Going South' with the Starchitects: Urbanist Ideology in the Emirati City”
part Section 8|30 pages
Cities at Risk
chapter |5 pages
“Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the Transformation of the Capital”
chapter |9 pages
“Disruption by Design: Urban Infrastructure and Political Violence”
chapter |4 pages
“Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power, and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan Delhi”
part |92 pages
Planned interventions and contestations
part Section 9|25 pages
Governance
chapter |6 pages
“New Spaces, New Contests: Appropriating Decentralization for Political Change in Bolivia”
chapter |6 pages
“Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics”
chapter |6 pages
“Sovereignty: Crisis, Humanitarianism, and the Condition of 21st Century Sovereignty”
part Section 10|16 pages
Participation
chapter |5 pages
“Whose Voices? Whose Choices? Reflections on Gender and Participatory Development”
part Section 11|34 pages
Urban Citizenship
chapter |18 pages
“Squatters and the State: The Dialectics between Social Integration and Social Change (Case Studies in Lima, Mexico, and Santiago de Chile)”
chapter |5 pages
“Global Mobility, Shifting Borders and Urban Citizenship”
chapter |4 pages
“Cyberactivism and Citizen Mobilization in the Streets of Cairo”
part Section 12|15 pages
The Transfer of Knowledge and Policy