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SAGE Publications Ltd Editorial arrangement, Chapter 1 & Chapter 16
1 Oliver’s Yard John Harrison & Michael Hoyler, 2018
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London EC1Y 1SP Chapter 2 Nikos Katsikis, 2018
Chapter 3 Peter J. Taylor & Ben Derudder, 2018
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Singapore 049483 Chapter 15 Mariana Dantas & Emma Hart, 2018
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‘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 assem-
bled and importantly pluralistic set of tools, techniques and insights
to guide and inspire new and enhanced routes into global urban
research.’
Andrew Harris, Co-director of UCL Urban Lab and Senior Lecturer
in Geography and Urban Studies, University College London
‘This agenda-setting volume provides a cohesive, candid, and con-
ceptually rich perspective on global urban research. Emerging and
established scholars share insights about their methods, ethics, and
research practices. These interdisciplinary perspectives make
Doing Global Urban Research a valuable and provocative
resource for researchers interested in global urban analysis.’
Michael Glass, Senior Lecturer of Urban Studies, University of
Pittsburgh
‘This is a landmark volume addressing the issue of the cumulative
global significance and impacts of the majority of the world’s
population livingin cities.
Under Harrison and Hoyler’s leadership, Doing Global Urban
Research unlocks new intellectual and political territory to reconfig-
ure the debates on why and how cities matter now and into the
future.’
Susan Parnell, Professor of Environmental & Geographical Science,
African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
‘The cities of the world and the world of cities have transformed
rather dramatically in the past half century. Instead of offering
rather frictionless theorizing on these changes, this volume offers a
very useful and highly reflective guide to do actual empirical
research on a wide range of topics related to global urban studies.’
Robert C. Kloosterman, Professor of Economic Geography and
Planning, University of Amsterdam
‘Although there are myriad texts about cities, very few provide useful guid-
ance on how and why to research them. Harrison and Hoyler’s Doing Global
Urban Research does just that: it provides novice and seasoned scholars alike
with a range of approaches to researching cross-cutting urban themes at the
global scale. Highly recommended to those interested in researching cities
from geographical, sociological, historical, and/or planning disciplinary
lenses, particularly as looking “across” methodological and theoretical per-
spectives has great potential to enhance research bridging the global and
urban scales.’
Thomas Sigler, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, The University of
Queensland
‘While globalization has become a common subject of the social sciences, the
practice of doing global urban studies has been neglected so far. This book pro-
vides a good sense of how to deal with this, both for students and researchers.’
Markus Hesse, Professor of Urban Studies, University of Luxembourg
CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables ix
About the Editors xi
About the Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xvii
1 Making Sense of the Global Urban 1
John Harrison and Michael Hoyler
2 Visualizing the Planetary Urban 12
Nikos Katsikis
3 Exploring the World City Network 34
Peter J. Taylor and Ben Derudder
4 Analysing Cities as Networks 52
Zachary P. Neal
5 Examining Global Urban Policy Mobilities 66
Cristina Temenos and Kevin Ward
6 Tracking the Global Urbanists 81
Donald McNeill and Andrea Pollio
7 Engaging with Global Urban Governance 96
Michele Acuto
8 Evaluating Global Urban Sustainability 110
John Lauermann
9 Scrutinizing Global Mega-Events 125
Christopher Gaffney, Sven Daniel Wolfe and Martin Müller
10 Studying Global Gentrifications 138
Hyun Bang Shin
viii DOING GLOBAL URBAN RESEARCH
11 Researching the Global Right to the City 153
David Wachsmuth
12 Constructing Global Suburbia, One Critical Theory at a Time 169
Roger Keil
13 Comparative Ethnographic Urban Research 182
Tim Bunnell
14 Doing Longitudinal Urban Research 196
Katherine V. Gough
15 Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban 211
Mariana Dantas and Emma Hart
16 Advancing Global Urban Research 225
Michael Hoyler and John Harrison
Index 233
LIST OF FIGURES
AND TABLES
Figures
2.1 Visualizing the planetary urban: Major agglomeration
zones and land use intensity 14
2.2 Visualizing the planetary urban: Nighttime lights
of the world 18
2.3 Visualizing the planetary urban: Urban population
(cities with population >300,000) 19
2.4 Visualizing the planetary urban: Population
density gradients (nighttime population) 20
2.5 Visualizing the planetary urban: Urban extents 20
2.6 Visualizing the planetary urban: Population density
gradients (averaged population) 21
2.7 Visualizing the planetary urban: Urban land cover 22
2.8 Visualizing the planetary urban: Distribution and density
of built-up areas 23
2.9 Visualizing the planetary urban: Urban clusters 23
2.10 Visualizing the planetary urban: Distribution of
global GDP, 2010 24
2.11 Visualizing the planetary urban: Distribution of
HANPP consumption 25
2.12 Visualizing the planetary urban: Distribution of
HANPP production 25
2.13 Visualizing the planetary urban: Distribution and
density of cropland areas 26
2.14 Visualizing the planetary urban: Distribution and
density of grazing areas 27
2.15 Visualizing the planetary urban: Distribution and
density of forestry areas 27
2.16 Visualizing the planetary urban: Ground, marine and
aviation transportation networks 28
3.1 Global network connectivity, 2016 42
4.1 Cities as networks 53
5.1 Field research sites for drug policy activism study 74
