The Routledge handbook of comparative global urban studies / edited by Patrick Le Galès and Jennifer Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Le Galès, Patrick, editor.

Robinson, Jennifer, 1963- editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Urbanization.

City planning.

urban sociology.

urbanization.

Medical Subjects:

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 613 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Handbook of comparative global urban studies

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Patrick Le Gals̈ FBA, MAE, is a CNRS Research Professor of Sociology, Politics and Urban studies at Sciences Po in Paris, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He was the founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School. Jennifer Robinson has been a Professor of Human Geography at University College London since 2009 and co-director of UCL's Urban Laboratory since 2010. Previously she has worked at the Open University, the LSE, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.

Summary:

"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 take 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 rigour and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together at least 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, planning, and urban studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : comparative global urban studies in the making : welcome to the world of imperfect and innovative urban comparisons / Patrick Le Galés and Jennifer Robinson

Beyond the city limits : comparison, global urbanism, and the Chicago School of Sociology / Gareth A. Jones and Dennis Rodgers

Comparative strategies on and in Latin-American cities / Eduardo Marques

Comparative urban studies and African studies at the crossroads : from the colonial situation to twilight institutions / Laurent Fourchard

Comparative urban studies in Asia : old players in urbanization history or emerging game changers? / Takashi Machimura

Comparative urban studies in Europe / Claire Colomb and Yuri Kazepov

Beyond comparison with history and actor-network theory / Bert De Munck

Citizenship and inequality in the post-colonial city : instituted processes and causal mechanisms / Patrick Heller and Partha Mukhopadhyay

The role of comparison in urban political science / Alison E. Post

The contribution of the sociological approach to comparative urban studies / Alberta Andreotti and Diego Coletto

Urban social movements : comparing conflicts and mobilizations / Walter J. Nicholls and Amrita Vijay Jain

A comparative network approach to the study of neighborhood-and city-level inequality based on everyday urban mobility / Robert J. Sampson and Jennifer Candipan

Making a comparative case : the Art Biennial in Dakar and Taipei / Julie Ren

Frames and flows : pan-urban policymaking and metropolitan transformation / Nik Theodore and Jamie Peck

From object biographies to data-centred assemblages : two experiments in relational urban comparison / Ola Söderström

Internal migrations and urban transitions : a comparative perspective / Gregory F. Randolph and Michael Storper

Odious comparisons in urban studies : a plea for comparative monographs / Gilles Pinson

A new era for commensurable comparative urban research? Machine learning and/or propagations / Dominique Boullier

Methodological manoeuvres : comparative practices in urban policymaking / Kevin Ward

Politics and governance in metropolitan areas : a transnational comparative perspective / Daniel Kübler and Jefferey M. Sellers

Enabling connections : relational comparison in a global conjunctural frame / Gillian Hart

Segregation studies : overriding context through implicit comparison? / Thomas Maloutas

Specificity and urbanisation : a framework for comparative analysis / Christian Schmid

The ends of comparison—calculative logics and racial hauntings / AbdouMaliq Simone

Cities in their states / Göran Therborn

Social mix, super-diversity, and interactions in the neighborhood : comparing US and Western European perspectives / Christine Barwick

Overcoming the limitations of comparative urban research in the (post-)socialist context / Slavomíra Ferencuhová

State entrepreneurialism : theorising urban development politics from China / Fulong Wu

Weak comparisons : navigating differences and commonalities among cities in Russia and elsewhere / Elena Trubina

The relevance of local factors for understanding Italy : explaining territorial differentiation / David Benassi

‘Coexisting heterogeneity’ : agrarian urban entanglements in India’s urbanizing frontiers / Shubhra Gururani

Socialist worldmaking : comparative research between the socialist and postcolonial countries during the Cold War / Lukasz Stanek

Comparative urban studies beyond the city / Manuel. B. Aalbers

Global cities research as comparative urban studies / David Bassens, Ben Derudder, and Michiel van Meeteren

Genetic Comparisons : tracing how global infrastructure conditions peri-urban trajectories / J. Miguel Kanai and Seth Schindler

Archipelagic thinking, southern urbanism and experimental comparisons / Garth Myers

Allegory, psychasthenia, horizon : comparative urbanism as spectral critique at the antipodes of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative / Olivier Thomas Kramsch

New York and Cairo : a view from street level / Janet Abu-Lughod

Emotions as an analytical category in comparative urban studies / Joseph Ben Prestel

Concepts and principles for taking Bourdieu into the city / Loïc Wacquant

Covid, contagion and comparative urban research / Roger Keil

Everyday cognition and historical tracing in comparative urban research : Insights from a study of the BRICS / Philip Harrison

Quilting comparison : wonder, translation and theorization / Julie-Anne Boudreau, Célia Bensiali and Laura Andrea Ferro-Higuera

Tracing materials to locate the urban : the West African corridor from Lagos to Abidjan / Armelle Choplin

How India urbanizes : multiscalar and multisited comparisons / Marie-Hélène Zérah

Ruled by the logic of "trans" : exploring the religion of the city on a global level / Stephan Lanz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge handbook of comparative global urban studies

ISBN:

9780429287961

0429287968

1000904113

9781000904130

100090413X

9781000904116

OCLC:

1373844336

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