Mobile urbanism : cities and policymaking in the global age / Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, editors ; foreword by Allan Cochrane.

Title & Author:

Mobile urbanism : cities and policymaking in the global age / Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, editors ; foreword by Allan Cochrane.

Publication:

Description:

xxv, 213 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

Globalization and community ; v. 17

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Urban assemblages : territories, relations, practices, and power / Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward -- A counterhegemonic relationality of place / Doreen Massey -- The spaces of circulating knowledge : city strategies and global urban governmentality / Jennifer Robinson -- Creative moments : working culture, through municipal socialism and neoliberal urbanism / Jamie Peck -- Policies in motion and in place : the case of business improvement districts / Kevin Ward -- Points of reference : knowledge of elsewhere in the politics of urban drug policy / Eugene McCann -- The urban political pathology of emerging infectious disease in the age of the global city / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali -- Airports, territoriality, and urban governance / Donald McNeill -- Conclusion : Cities assembled : space, neoliberalization, (re)territorialization, and comparison / Kevin Ward and Eugene McCann.

Summary:

The contributors argue for a theorizing of both urban policymaking & place-making that understands cities as groups of territorial & relational geographies.

ISBN:

9780816656288 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816656282 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816656295 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816656290 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Urban policy.
City planning.
Urbanization.
Politique urbaine.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
Society.
Verstädterung
Globalisierung
Stadtplanung
Kommunalpolitik
Stadt.
Städtebau.
Urban politik.
Stadsplanering.
Urbanisering.
City planning 21st century.
Urbanization 21st century.
Urbanization 2000-2010.

Added entries:

McCann, Eugene, editor, writer of introduction.
Ward, Kevin, 1969- editor, writer of introduction.
Cochrane, Allan, writer of foreword.
McCann, Eugene
Ward, Kevin, 1969-
Globalization and community ; v. 17.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272471
Call No.: BIB 205797
Status: Available

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