CONTENTS
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Editors' Introduction to the Volume
PART I THE CITY EXPERIENCED
"Urban Lives: Stories from Tehran"
Ali Madanipour
PART II MAKING THE "THIRD WORLD" CITY
Section 1 Historical Underpinnings
Editors' Introduction
"Colonialism and Urban Development"
Anthony D. King
"Cities Interlinked"
Doreen Massey
Section 2 Development and Urbanization
Editors' Introduction
"Development and the City"
Michael Goldman
"World Cities, or a World of Ordinary Cities?"
Jennifer Robinson
PART III THE CITY LIVED
Section 3 Migratory Fields
Editors' Introduction
"Township Politics"
Mzwanele Mayekiso
"The Urbanity of Movement: Dynamic Frontiers in Contemporary Africa"
Abdoumaliq Simone
"Migration and Privatization of Space and Power in Late Socialist China"
Li Zhang
Section 4 Urban Economy
Editors' Introduction
"Working in the Streets of Cali, Colombia: Survival Strategy, Necessity, or Unavoidable
Evil?"
Ray Bromley
"Anchoring Transnational Flows: Hypermodern Spaces in the Global South"
Sudeshna Mitra
Section 5 Housing
Editors' Introduction
"International Policy for Urban Housing Markets in the Global South since 1945"
Richard Harris
"Women and Self-Help Housing Projects: A Conceptual Framework for
Analysis and Policy-Making"
Caroline O.N. Moser
"The Suburbanization of Jakarta: A Concurrence of Economics and Ideology"
Michael Leaf
PART IV THE CITY ENVIROMENT
Section 6 Basic Urban Services
Editors' Introduction
"Environmental Problems of Third World Cities: A Global Issue Ignored?"
Jorge E. Hardoy and David Satterthwaite
"Victims, Villains and Fixers: The Urban Environment and Johannesburg's Poor" Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell
"Formalizing the Informal? The Transformation of Cairo's Refuse Collection System"
Ragui Assaad
Section 7 Urban Infrastructure
Editors' Introduction
"Urban Transport Policy as if People and the Environment Mattered:
Pedestrian Accessibility is the First Step"
Madhav G. Badami
"Kinshasa and Its (Im)material Infrastructure"
Filip De Boeck and Marie-Francoise Plissart
"'Going South' with the Starchitects: Urbanist Ideology in the Emirati City" Ahmed Kanna
Section 8 Cities at Risk
Editors' Introduction (with Andrew Rumbach)
"Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the
Transformation of the Capital"
Diane E. Davis
"Disruption by Design: Urban Infrastructure and Political Violence"
Stephen Graham
"Between Violence and Desire: Space, Power, and Identity in the Making of Metropolitan
Delhi"
Amita Baviskar
"Climate Dangers and Atoll Countries"
Jon Barnett and W. Neil Adger
PART V PLANNED INTERVENTIONS AND CONTESTATIONS
Section 9 Governance
Editors' Introduction
"New Spaces, New Contests: Appropriating Decentralization for
Political Change in Bolivia"
Ben Kohl and Linda Farthing
"Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics"
Arjun Appadurai
"Sovereignty: Crisis, Humanitarianism, and the Condition
of 21st Century Sovereignty"
Michael Mascarenhas
Section 10 Participation
Editors' Introduction
"The Citizens of Porto Alegre"
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
"Whose Voices? Whose Choices? Refl ections on Gender and
Participatory Development"
Andrea Cornwall
Section 11 Urban Citizenship
Editors' Introduction
"Squatters and the State: The Dialectics between Social
Integration and Social Change (Case Studies in Lima, Mexico, and
Santiago de Chile)"
Manuel Castells
"Global Mobility, Shifting Borders and Urban Citizenship"
Michael Peter Smith and Luis Eduardo Guarnizo
"Cyberactivism and Citizen Mobilization in the Streets of Cairo"
Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn
Section 12 The Transfer of Knowledge and Policy
Editors' Introduction
"Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and
the Idiom of Urbanization"
Ananya Roy
"International Best Practice, Enabling Frameworks and the
Policy Process: A South African
Case Study"
Richard Tomlinson
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