CONTENTS List of plates viii List of figures x List of tables xi Notes on contributors xii Acknowledgements xviii 1 Introduction: urban theory beyond the West 1 Tim Edensor and Mark fayne PART I De-centring the city 29 2 No longer the subaltern: reflguring cities of the global south 31 AbdouMaliq Simone 3 China exceptionalism? Unbounding narratives on urban China 47 Choon-Piew Pow 4 Urban theory beyond the 'East/West divide'? Cities and urban research in postsocialist Europe 65 Slavomira Ferencuhovd 5 Urbanism, colonialism and subalternity 75 Swati Chattopadhyay PART II Order/disorder 93 6 Governing cities without states? Rethinking urban political theories in Asia 95 Yooil Bae 7 Public parks in the Americas: New York City and Buenos Aires 111 Nora Libertun de Duren 8 An illness called Managua: 'extraordinary' urbanization and 'mal-development' in Nicaragua 121 Dennis Rodgers 9 The concept of privacy and space in Kurdish cities 137 Hooshmand Alizadeh 10 The networked city: popular modernizers and urban transformation in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1955 157 Christina M.Jimenez PART III Mobilities 173 11 Distinctly Delhi: affect and exclusion in a crowded city 175 Melissa Butcher 12 Shanghai borderlands: the rise of a new urbanity? 195 Deljana lossifova 13 Contemporary urban culture in Latin America: everyday life in Santiago, Chile 209 Jorge Inzulza-Contardo 14 Urban (im) mobility: public encounters in Dubai 219 Yasser Elsheshtawy 15 Reality tours: experiencing the 'real thing' in Rio de Janeiro's favelas 239 Beatriz Jaguaribe and Scott Salmon 16 Modern warfare and the theorization of the Middle Eastern city 261 Sofia T, Shwayri 17 Reading Thai community: the processes of reformation and fragmentation 273 Cuttaleeya Jirapmsertkun 18 Urban political ecology in the global south: everyday environmental struggles of home in Managua, Nicaragua 295 Laura Shillington 19 Spectral Kinshasa: building the city through an architecture of words 311 Filip De Boeck 20 Afterword: a world of cities 329 Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne Bibliography 333 Index 372