TY - GEN AU - Parnell, Susan Ed. AU - Oldfield, Sophie Ed. TI - Routledge handbook on cities of the global South SN - 9780415818650 U1 - 307.76 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of figures x List of tables xiii List of contributors xiv Acknowledgements xx 1 'From the south' 1 Sophie Oldfield and Susan Parnell PART I Critical urbanism 5 2 Critical urbanism 7 Sophie Oldfield 3 Worlding the south: toward a post-colonial urban theory 9 Ananya Roy 4 Grounding southern city theory in time and place 21 Alan Mabin 5 Is there a 'south' perspective to urban studies? 37 Sujata Patel 6 Disseminating 'best practice'? The coloniality of urban knowledge and city models 48 Carlos Vainer 7 New geographies of theorizing the urban : putting comparison to work for global urban studies 57 PART II The urban : past , present, future 8 The urban : past , present, future 73 Susan Parnell 9 Shaping cities of the global south : legal histories of planning and colonialism 75 Robert Home 10 Troubling continuities : use and utility of the term 'slum' 86 Maire Huchzermeyer 11 Learning planning from the south : ideas from the new urban frontiers 98 Vanessa Waston 12 Urban land markers : a southern exposure 109 Richard Harris 13 The urbanization-development nexus in the BRICS 122 Ivan Turok PART III Global economic turbulence : (re)configuring the urban 139 14 Global economic turbulence : (re)configuring the urban 141 Sophie Oldfield and Susan Parnell 15 Globalizing capitalism and southern urbanization 143 Eric Sheppard 16 Steering, speeding, scaling : China’s model of urban growth and its implications for cities of the global south 155 Xiangming Chen 17 Does African urban policy provide a platform for sustained economic growth? 173 Robert Buckley and Achilles Kallergis 18 Disjunctures between urban infrastructure, finance and affordability 191 Edgar Pieterse and Katherine Hyman 19 Re-evaluating the influence of urban agglomeration in sub-Saharan Africa: population density, technological innovation and productivity 206 Deborah Fahy Bryceson 20 The urban informal economy: enhanced knowledge, appropriate policies and effective organization 219 Martha Chen and Caroline Skinner 21 Digital dynamics: new technologies and work transformations in African cities 236 Chris Benner PART IV Politics, transformation and the southern city 253 22 Politics, transformation and the southern city 255 Sophie Oldfield 23 Substantiating urban democracy : the importance of popular representation and transformative democratic politics 257 Kristian Stokke 24 The politics of the urban everyday in Cairo: infrastructures of oppositional action 269 Salwa Ismail 25 Claiming 'rights' in the African city: popular mobilization and the politics of informality 281 Claire Benit- Gbaffou and Sophie Oldfield 26 The urban poor and strategies for a pro-poor politics : reflections on Shack/Slum Dwellers International 296 Diana Mitlin and Sheela Patel 27 Occupancy urbanism as political practice 309 Solomon Benjamin 28 The missing people : reflections on an urban majority in cities of the south 322 AbdouMaliq Simone PARTV Negotiating society and identity in urban spaces of the south 337 29 Negotiating society and identity in urban spaces of the south Sophie Oldfield 339 30 Conviviality and the boundaries of citizenship in urban Africa 341 Francis B . Nyamnjoh and Ingrid Brudvig 31 Contentious identities? Urban space, cityness and citizenship 356 Philippe Gervais-Lambony 32 The place of migrant women and the role of gender in the cities of Asia 370 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Kamalini Ramdas 33 Spaces of difference: challenging urban divisions from the north to the south 385 Sophie Watson 34 Hip hop politics : recognizing southern complexity 396 Jenny Mbaye 35 Gender is still the battleground : youth, cultural production and the remaking of public space in Sao Paulo 413 Teresa P.R. Caldeira PART VI Conceptualizing the built environment: accounting for southern urban complexities 429 36 Conceptualizing the built environment : accounting for southern urban complexities 431 Susan Parnell 37 Regulating service delivery in southern cities: rethinking urban heterogeneity 434 Sylvy Jaglin 38 The politics and technologies of urban waste 448 Garth Myers 39 Urban mobilities : innovation and diffusion in public transport 459 Roger Behrens 40 Urban fragmentation, 'good governance' and the emergence of the competitive city 474 Julio D. Davila 41 The new divided city? Planning and 'gray space' between global north-west and south-east 487 Nujar Avni and Oren Yiftachel 42 Gentrification in the global south? Loretta Lees 43 Peri-urbanization and the political ecology of differential sustainability 522 Adriana Allen PART VII Big stories of urban change 539 44 Big stories of urban change 541 Susan Parnell 45 Approaching food security in cities of the global south 543 Jonathan Crush 46 Healthy cities of/from the south 556 Clare Herrick 47 Urban poverty in low- and middle-income nations 569 David Satterthwaite 48 Migration, urbanization and changing gender relations in the south 586 Cecilia Tacoli and Sylvia Chant 49 Urban metabolism of the global south 597 John E. Fernandez 50 Urban dynamics and the challenges of global environmental change in the south 613 David Simon and Hayley Leek Index 629 ER -