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