Handbook of Emerging 21st-Century Cities

Edited by Kris Bezdecny, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles and Kevin Archer, Professor and Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Central Washington University, US

‘... the book is one of the few contributions I know of which offers a sincerely cosmopolitan geography of knowledge on cities. It avoids categories such as North and South as it moves in changing directions across the regions of the world (although with Eurasia as a gap). Secondly, the book returns attention to emerging city forms and processes.’

• Contents:1. Conceptualizing the Emerging 21st Century CityKris Bezdecny and Kevin ArcherPart I Emerging City Theory2. Strategic simplification and the urban politics of defining ‘the city’John Lauermann3. Creating environmentally sustainable cities: not an easy taskPatrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery4. Antifragility and the Transformative Idea of Slow UrbanismRichard Bower5. Uneven geographical development and the city: Conceptualizing the fractalization of spaceKris BezdecnyPart II Cities as spaces of emerging power6. China’s New Urbanization Plan: crafting China’s new cities or more of the cliché?Yin-wah Chu7. The Impact of China on African Cities: Potentials for DevelopmentJames T. Murphy, Pádraig Carmody, Richard Grant and Francis Owusu8. Quality of Life in Indian CitiesRumi Aijaz9. Emerging Digital Cities of East Asia: Seoul, Singapore and ShanghaiBarney WarfPart III Cities as Spaces of Emerging Economies10. Mega Urban Developments in the Arabian Peninsula for a Post-Oil FutureBurkay Pasin and Asli Ceylan Oner11. Urbanization of Poverty: The African City’s Challenge of the CenturyOwiti A. K’Akumu12. Planned to Fail: Creating the Global South in American South CommunitiesWilliam G. Holt13. The U.S.-Mexico Transfrontier Metropolis: Theoretical and Empirical ExplorationsLawrence A. HerzogPart IV Cities of Emerging Social Dynamics14. Inclusive Growth and the Urban Question: Some Lessons from Asia Ravi Ghadge15. The institutionalization of the right to the city: The Spanish caseVítor Peiteado Fernández16. Border cities: urban growth and planning at the national peripheryPeter D. A. Wood17.Loftification: The Refurbished Gentrification DynamicChristiana SaldanaPart V Cities as Spaces of Emerging Technologies18. Data-driven Divides: Smart Cities and Techno-racial Segregation Monica M. Brannon19. Urban Renewal in the Hybrid City: Using Data for DevelopmentEmily Fekete20. Applying Critical Cartography Redress Urban Disinvestment and Financial Access for Communities Jason Richardson and Bruce Coffyn Mitchell21. The Spreadable City: Urban Exploration and Connective Media André Jansson and Maja KlausenIndex