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Mobile urbanism [electronic resource] : cities and policymaking in the global age / Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, editors ; foreword by Allan Cochrane.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Globalization and community ; v. 17.
- Globalization and community ; v. 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban policy.
- City planning.
- Urbanization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Mobile Urbanism"" provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are not isolated objects of study; rather, they are dynamic, global-local assemblages of policies, practices, and ideas. The essays in this volume argue for a theorizing of both urban policymaking and place-making that understands them as groups of territorial and relational geographies. It broadens our comprehension of agents of transference, reconceiving how policies are made mobile, and acknowledging the importance
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction. Urban Assemblages: Territories, Relations, Practices, and Power; 1 A Counterhegemonic Relationality of Place; 2 The Spaces of Circulating Knowledge: City Strategies and Global Urban Governmentality; 3 Creative Moments: Working Culture, through Municipal Socialism and Neoliberal Urbanism; 4 Policies in Motion and in Place: The Case of Business Improvement Districts; 5 Points of Reference: Knowledge of Elsewhere in the Politics of Urban Drug Policy; 6 The Urban Political Pathology of Emerging Infectious Disease in the Age of the Global City
- 7 Airports, Territoriality, and Urban GovernanceConclusion. Cities Assembled: Space, Neoliberalization, (Re)territorialization, and Comparison; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-7669-0
- OCLC:
- 741492678
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