Many Urbanisms : : Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building / / Martin J. Murray.

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• VerfasserIn: Murray, Martin J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
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Now, for the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. But urbanization is accelerating in some places and slowing down in others. The sprawling megacities of Asia and Africa, as well as many other smaller and medium-sized cities throughout the “Global South,” ar...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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