Doing Global Urban Research

John Harrison is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. He is an urban-regional geographer interested in how large urban and regional spaces are conceptualized and mobilized politically. His recent publications have focused on global urban and regional governance. He is also co-editor of Planning and Governance of Cities in Globalization (Routledge, 2013) and Megaregions: Globalization’s New Urban Form? (Edward Elgar, 2015), as well as an editor of the journal Regional Studies.Michael Hoyler is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. He is an urban geographer interested in the transformation of cities and metropolitan regions in contemporary globalization. His recent publications have focused on (world) city and city-regional network formation. He is also co-editor of Global Urban Analysis (Earthscan, 2011), the International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities (Edward Elgar, 2012), Cities in Globalization (Routledge, 2013) and Megaregions: Globalization’s New Urban Form? (Edward Elgar, 2015).

In the exciting recent whirl of theorising cities and urbanisation through new globalised and planetary configurations, empirical underpinnings have often struggled to keep pace. This much needed collection addresses this issue head-on offering a carefully assembled and importantly pluralistic set of tools, techniques and insights to guide and inspire new and enhanced routes into global urban research.

• Chapter 1: Making Sense of the Global Urban - John Harrison & Michael HoylerChapter 2: Visualizing the Planetary Urban - Nikos KatsikisChapter 3: Exploring the World City Network - Peter J. Taylor & Ben DerudderChapter 4: Analysing Cities as Networks - Zachary P. NealChapter 5: Examining Global Urban Policy Mobilities - Cristina Temenos & Kevin WardChapter 6: Tracking the Global Urbanists - Donald McNeill & Andrea PollioChapter 7: Engaging with Global Urban Governance - Michele AcutoChapter 8: Evaluating Global Urban Sustainability - John LauermannChapter 9: Scrutinizing Global Mega-Events - Christopher Gaffney, Sven Daniel Wolfe & Martin MüllerChapter 10: Studying Global Gentrifications - Hyun Bang ShinChapter 11: Researching the Global Right to the City - David WachsmuthChapter 12: Constructing Global Suburbia, One Critical Theory at a Time - Roger KeilChapter 13: Comparative Ethnographic Urban Research - Tim BunnellChapter 14: Doing Longitudinal Urban Research - Katherine V. GoughChapter 15: Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban - Mariana Dantas & Emma HartChapter 16: Advancing Global Urban Research - Michael Hoyler & John Harrison