cities of the global south reader goldman

These include the urban economy, housing, basic services, infrastructure, the role of non-state civil society-based actors, planned interventions and contestations, the role of diaspora capital, the looming problem of adapting to climate change, and the increasing spectre of violence in a post 9/11 transnational world.

The Reader’s thematic structure, where editorial introductions accompany selected texts, examines the issues and concerns that urban dwellers, planners, and policy makers face in the contemporary world.

By asking: “whose city? whose development?” the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially and spatially constructed hierarchies in global South cities. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Thanks for your patience during this conversion, and thanks again for your continued readership.The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. If you subscribed via RSS and didn’t get this post in your RSS feed, please email me what RSS feed URL you’re using and I will work on it ASAP. The RSS feeds should be working properly. If you have any favorite WordPress plug-ins you recommend we install, let me know. And PLEASE email me your feedback and any suggestions, especially if you see anything broken (other than links to external websites, which I don’t try to maintain). We’re experimenting with some features, such as comments and WordPress’ automated related-posts tool.

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Cities of the global south reader goldman