Tony Roshan Samara is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, USA.Shenjing He is Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Geography and Planning, interdisciplinary Urban Research Center at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. Guo Chen is Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

"Locating Right to the City in the Global South, brings together empirically and theoretically rich case studies that contribute to the development of conceptual tools for understanding contemporary urban inequality." — Andy Clarno, University of Illinois at Chicago, City & Community"While there is a rising appeal for understanding the contexts of global urbanism, this book represents a major concrete step towards this aim, by taking a widely popularized core concept of urban theory and paying extra attention to distinct locations in the Global South." — Fulong Wu, University College London, UK in Urban Studies

• Introduction: Locating Right to the City in the Global South Part I: A City Divided Against Itself 1. Towards the Right to the City in Informal Settlements 2. Cities Without Slums in Morocco? New Modalities of Urban government and the Bidonville as a Neoliberal Assemblage 3. The Divisive Nature of Neoliberal Urban Renewal in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 4. Greening Dispossession: Environmental Governance and Socio-spatial Transformation in Yixing, China Part II: Governance and Cosmopolitanism: Escaping the South 5. Urban Governance, Mega-Projects, and Scalar Transformations in China and India 6. Bourgeois Environmentalism, Leftist Development, and Neoliberal Urbanism in the City of Joy 7. Public Space Versus Tableau: The Right To The City Paradox In Neoliberal Bogotá, Colombia 8. Resisting the Neoliberalization of Space in Mexico City 9. City Ghosts: The Haunted Struggles for Downtown Durban and Berlin Neukölln Part III: Governance and Counter-governance: The Shape of Urban Conflict and the Urban Future 10. Insurgency and Institutionalized Social Participation in Local-level Urban Planning: The Case of PAC Comuna, Santiago de Chile, 2003-2005 11. Distinguishing the Right Kind of City: Contentious Urban Middle Classes in Argentina, Brazil, and Turkey 12. Bloggers’s Right to Cairo’s Real and Virtual Spaces of Protest Afterword: Re-engaging with Transnational Urbanism

Tony Roshan Samara is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, USA.Shenjing He is Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Geography and Planning, interdisciplinary Urban Research Center at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. Guo Chen is Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

"Locating Right to the City in the Global South, brings together empirically and theoretically rich case studies that contribute to the development of conceptual tools for understanding contemporary urban inequality." — Andy Clarno, University of Illinois at Chicago, City & Community"While there is a rising appeal for understanding the contexts of global urbanism, this book represents a major concrete step towards this aim, by taking a widely popularized core concept of urban theory and paying extra attention to distinct locations in the Global South." — Fulong Wu, University College London, UK in Urban Studies

• Introduction: Locating Right to the City in the Global South Part I: A City Divided Against Itself 1. Towards the Right to the City in Informal Settlements 2. Cities Without Slums in Morocco? New Modalities of Urban government and the Bidonville as a Neoliberal Assemblage 3. The Divisive Nature of Neoliberal Urban Renewal in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 4. Greening Dispossession: Environmental Governance and Socio-spatial Transformation in Yixing, China Part II: Governance and Cosmopolitanism: Escaping the South 5. Urban Governance, Mega-Projects, and Scalar Transformations in China and India 6. Bourgeois Environmentalism, Leftist Development, and Neoliberal Urbanism in the City of Joy 7. Public Space Versus Tableau: The Right To The City Paradox In Neoliberal Bogotá, Colombia 8. Resisting the Neoliberalization of Space in Mexico City 9. City Ghosts: The Haunted Struggles for Downtown Durban and Berlin Neukölln Part III: Governance and Counter-governance: The Shape of Urban Conflict and the Urban Future 10. Insurgency and Institutionalized Social Participation in Local-level Urban Planning: The Case of PAC Comuna, Santiago de Chile, 2003-2005 11. Distinguishing the Right Kind of City: Contentious Urban Middle Classes in Argentina, Brazil, and Turkey 12. Bloggers’s Right to Cairo’s Real and Virtual Spaces of Protest Afterword: Re-engaging with Transnational Urbanism

Tony Roshan Samara is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, USA.Shenjing He is Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Geography and Planning, interdisciplinary Urban Research Center at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. Guo Chen is Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

"Locating Right to the City in the Global South, brings together empirically and theoretically rich case studies that contribute to the development of conceptual tools for understanding contemporary urban inequality." — Andy Clarno, University of Illinois at Chicago, City & Community"While there is a rising appeal for understanding the contexts of global urbanism, this book represents a major concrete step towards this aim, by taking a widely popularized core concept of urban theory and paying extra attention to distinct locations in the Global South." — Fulong Wu, University College London, UK in Urban Studies

• Introduction: Locating Right to the City in the Global South Part I: A City Divided Against Itself 1. Towards the Right to the City in Informal Settlements 2. Cities Without Slums in Morocco? New Modalities of Urban government and the Bidonville as a Neoliberal Assemblage 3. The Divisive Nature of Neoliberal Urban Renewal in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 4. Greening Dispossession: Environmental Governance and Socio-spatial Transformation in Yixing, China Part II: Governance and Cosmopolitanism: Escaping the South 5. Urban Governance, Mega-Projects, and Scalar Transformations in China and India 6. Bourgeois Environmentalism, Leftist Development, and Neoliberal Urbanism in the City of Joy 7. Public Space Versus Tableau: The Right To The City Paradox In Neoliberal Bogotá, Colombia 8. Resisting the Neoliberalization of Space in Mexico City 9. City Ghosts: The Haunted Struggles for Downtown Durban and Berlin Neukölln Part III: Governance and Counter-governance: The Shape of Urban Conflict and the Urban Future 10. Insurgency and Institutionalized Social Participation in Local-level Urban Planning: The Case of PAC Comuna, Santiago de Chile, 2003-2005 11. Distinguishing the Right Kind of City: Contentious Urban Middle Classes in Argentina, Brazil, and Turkey 12. Bloggers’s Right to Cairo’s Real and Virtual Spaces of Protest Afterword: Re-engaging with Transnational Urbanism