Many urbanisms : divergent trajectories of global city building / Martin J. Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Martin J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Study and teaching.

Cities and towns.

Urbanization.

Megacities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Rethinking Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century

Part I. Conventional Urban Theory at a Crossroads

1. The Narrow Preoccupations of Conventional Urban Studies

2. The Universalizing Pretensions of Mainstream Urban Studies: Generic Cities and the Convergence Thesis

Part II. Trajectories of Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century: A First Approximation

3. Globalizing Cities with World-Class Aspirations: The Emergence of the Postindustrial Tourist-Entertainment City

4. Struggling Postindustrial Cities in Decline

5. Sprawling Megacities of Hypergrowth: The Unplanned Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century

6. Building Cities on a Grand Scale: The Instant Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century

Part III. The Future of Urbanism

7. Conclusion: Urban Futures

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Murray, Martin J. Many Urbanisms

ISBN:

9780231555357

0231555350

OCLC:

1294141464