Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power and the City

Global Urbanism explores the relationship between the 'global' and the 'urban,' examining diverse understandings, definitions, and research approaches from contributors around the world. It advocates for an incremental, fragile, and emancipatory urban thinking and offers resources to understand global urbanism's varieties, stakes, research methods, and changes for progressive urban futures.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 352 pages
\n Publication date: 06 May 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Global Urbanism is an innovative exploration of how urban scholars and activists comprehend and respond to the fundamental connection between the global and the urban. It delves into the meaning of living in a global-urban moment and its far-reaching implications. Rather than offering a comprehensive answer, the book fosters a nuanced understanding by presenting diverse perspectives from contributors around the world. The contributors delve into their own interpretations of global urbanism, contextualizing it within their unique experiences and the challenges they face. The book advocates for an incremental, fragile, and constantly evolving emancipatory urban mindset. Through their contributions, the book offers valuable insights into the multifaceted nature of global urbanism, its stakes, research methodologies, and the necessary changes for more progressive urban futures. It presents a heterodox set of approaches and theorizations to probe and challenge rather than seeking to definitively define a complex and ever-changing global-urban landscape.

Global Urbanism is primarily designed for scholars and graduate students in geography, sociology, planning, anthropology, and urban studies. It serves as an essential and up-to-date resource, guiding them through the current thinking across various disciplines and practices that converge in the study of urbanism. Chapter 36 of this book is freely accessible as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. You can access it at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429259593.

\n Weight: 672g\n
Dimension: 184 x 244 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367745349\n \n