Bücher der Reihe Questioning Cities

Bringing together cutting-edge studies into a range of contemporary sites of urban concern, this volume unfolds the collective research agenda of urban cosmopolitics in three directions: the relational constitution and political effects of urban technologies, infrastructures, and other material-semiotic agencies (agencements); the coming together of new urban concerns, constituencies, and publics (assemblies); and the coalescing of urban practices into shared spaces of co-existence, life-support, and survival (atmospheres). Together, we assert, this exploration of urban cosmopolitics amounts to a `strong program¿ of urban studies, allowing us to shed new light on key topics of contemporary research, including urban planning and citizen publics; economic dynamics and constraints; street life and the everyday; built environment dynamics and differentiations; and disasters, risks, and sustainable transitions.

Presents a framework for urban development. This book considers the two framing axes of urban modernity and development, and argues that if cities are to be imagined in equitable and creative ways, urban theory must overcome these axes with their Western bias, and that resources must become at least as cosmopolitan as cities themselves.

Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. If today's cities are full of injustices and unrealized promises, how would a Just City function? Is a Just City merely a utopia, or does it have practical relevance? This book engages with the debates around these questions.

Including international research and contributions, this collection offers an approach to untangling the interconnected processes involved in forming urban landscapes. It seeks to enable scholars and researchers of geographical, and urban studies to understand how economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments.

Concerned with the borders and boundaries, constraints and limits on accepting, acknowledging and celebrating difference in public, this book interrogates how difference is negotiated and performed. It helps us re-imagine urban public space as a site of potentiality, difference, and enchanted encounters.

Combining urban-studies theories with Benjaminian cultural analyses, and theoretical discussions with close-readings of cultural works in various media, this book compares Mexico City and Sao Paulo.

A collection of essays on how and why cities are connecting to each other in a globalizing world. This work covers four key themes beginning with the different ways of measuring a 'world city network', ranging from analyses of corporate structures to airline passenger flows.

This book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities

This book proposes - and its various chapters offer demonstrations - importing into urban studies a body of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network Theory (ANT).

This book explains the economic and social changes cities experience as they compete in a global world and explores how the discourse of globalizing has become a major narrative in the restructuring of cities around the world.

Including urban case studies, international research and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this book describes how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments. It is aimed at the students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies.

Using an unusual set of over 100 interviews with local political and community leaders, this book investigates the prospects that grassroots urban policies can provide "pushes from below" which help nation-states address the thorny challenges of ethnic conflict and democratization.

This book proposes-and its various chapters offer demonstrations-importing into urban studies a body of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of science and technology studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network Theory (ANT).