Mobile Urbanism

by Mccann, Eugene; Ward, Kevin; Cochrane, Allan; Massey, Doreen (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780816656295
• ISBN10: 0816656290
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-06
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

Mobile Urbanismprovides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are not isolated objects of study; rather, they are dynamic, global-local assemblages of policies, practices, and ideas. The essays in this volume argue for a theorizing of both urban policymaking and place-making that understands them as groups of territorial and relational geographies. It broadens our comprehension of agents of transference, reconceiving how policies are made mobile, and acknowledging the importance of interlocal policy mobility. Through the richness of its empirical examples from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, contributors bring to light the significant methodological challenges that researchers face in the study of an urban-global, territorial-relational conceptualization of cities and suggest productive new approaches to understanding urbanism in a networked world. Contributors: S. Harris Ali, York U, Toronto; Allan Cochrane, Open U; Roger Keil , York U, Toronto; Doreen Massey, Open U; Donald McNeill, U of Western Sydney; Jamie Peck, U of British Columbia; Jennifer Robinson, University College London.

Author Biography

Eugene McCann is associate professor of geography at Simon Fraser University. Kevin Ward is professor of human geography at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction. Urban Assemblages: Territories, Relations, Practices, and Power	p. xiii
A Counterhegemonic Relationality of Place	p. 1
The Spaces of Circulating Knowledge: City Strategies and Global Urban Governmentality	p. 15
Creative Moments: Working Culture, through Municipal Socialism and Neoliberal Urbanism	p. 41
Policies in Motion and in Place: The Case of Business Improvement Districts	p. 71
Points of Reference: Knowledge of Elsewhere in the Politics of Urban Drug Policy	p. 97
The Urban Political Pathology of Emerging Infectious Disease in the Age of the Global City	p. 123
Airports, Territoriality, and Urban Governance	p. 147
Conclusion. Cities Assembled: Space, Neoliberalization, (Re)territorialization, and Comparison	p. 167
Acknowledgments	p. 185
Contributors	p. 187
Index	p. 191
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