Cities and Power

Göran Therborn is Professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has worked on all the populated continents of the world, and has dealt with a number of themes and topics in numerous publications, including cities as places of power, processes of inequality, sex, gender, and family relations, waves and processes of globalization, world pathways to modernity, unemployment and social policies in comparative perspective, the history of democracy and the right to vote.

• 1. Introduction: Cities and power 2. Ancient cities and power: the archaeology of urbanism in the Iron Age capitals of northern Mesopotamia 3. Hidden and exposed faces of power in Buenos Aires 4. Tshwane and spaces of power in South Africa 5. Cities of power and protest: spatial legibility and the colonial state in early twentieth-century India 6. Power and time turning: The capital, the state and the kampung in Jakarta 7. Planet Moscow, a guide to the changing landscape of power 8. City power and urban fiscal crises: the USA, China, and India 9. The landscape of Tokyo power 10. Cities (and regions) within a city: subnational representations and the creation of European imaginaries in Brussels