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Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiv
Notes on Editors and Contributors xv
Publisher’s Acknowledgements xxiv
1 Introduction: Urban Churn 1
Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett
PART I QUESTIONS OF DEFINITION: AN URBAN COMPENDIUM 11
2 The Global Urban: Difference and Complexity in Urban Studies and the
Science of Cities 13
Susan Parnell and Jennifer Robinson
3 Urban Studies and the Postcolonial Encounter 32
Ananya Roy
4 Elements for a New Epistemology of the Urban 47
Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid
PART II HIERARCHY: ELITES AND EVICTIONS 69
5 The Elite Habitus in Cities of Accumulation 71
Mike Savage
6 Reimagining Chinese London 87
Caroline Knowles and Roger Burrows
7 Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty 104
Matthew Desmond
PART III PRODUCTIVITY: OVER-INVESTMENT AND
ABANDONMENT 141
8 Global Cities: Places for Researching the Translocal 143
Saskia Sassen
9 Origins of an Urban Crisis: The Restructuring of the San Francisco
Bay Area and the Geography of Foreclosure 159
Alex Schafran
viii The SAGe hAndbook of The 21ST CenTury CiTy
10 Urban Economies and Social Inequalities 187
Fran Tonkiss
11 Ruination and Post-industrial Urban Decline 201
Alice Mah
PART IV AUTHORITY: GOVERNANCE AND MOBILISATIONS 213
12 The Political Sociology of Cities and Urbanisation Processes:
Social Movements, Inequalities and Governance 215
Patrick Le Galès
13 Limits to South Africa’s ‘Right to the City’: Prospects for and
beyond Urban Commoning 236
Patrick Bond
14 Aesthetic Governmentality: Administering the World-Class
City in Delhi’s Slums 256
D. Asher Ghertner
PART V VOLATILITY: DISRUPTION AND ADAPTATION 277
15 Post-disaster Recovery and Rebuilding 279
Kevin Fox Gotham and Wesley Cheek
16 What the Eye Does Not See: The Yamuna in the Imagination of Delhi 298
Amita Baviskar
17 Endangered City: Security and Citizenship in Bogotá 314
Austin Zeiderman
PART VI CONFLICT: VULNERABILITY AND INSURGENCY 333
18 The European ‘Refugee Crisis’ in ‘Our’ Cities: Vulnerability,
Truth, and Ethics of the Surface 335
Christine Hentschel
19 The Time of and Temporal (Un)Civility of the City: MENA
Urban Insurgencies and Revolutions 349
Anna M. Agathangelou
20 Violent Infrastructures, Places of Conflict: Urban Order in Divided Cities 376
Wendy Pullan
Contents ix
PART VII PROVISIONALITY: INFRASTRUCTURE AND
INCREMENTALISM 397
21 The Majority-world and the Politics of Everyday Living in Southeast Asia 399
AbdouMaliq Simone
22 Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning: Reflections from Mumbai and
Kampala 416
Colin McFarlane
23 Infrastructure Deficits and Potential in African Cities 429
Katherine Hyman and Edgar Pieterse
PART VIII MOBILITY: RE-BORDERING AND DE-BORDERING 453
24 City of Migrants 455
Ash Amin
25 The Migrant Street 464
Suzanne Hall, Robin Finlay and Julia King
26 Rethinking Border Cities: In-between Spaces, Unequal Actors
and Stretched Mobilities across the China–Southeast Asia Borderland 478
Xiangming Chen and Curtis Stone
27 Re-bordering Camp and City: ‘Race’, Space and Citizenship in Dhaka 502
Victoria Redclift
28 The Essences of Multiculture: A Sensory Exploration of an
Inner-City Street Market 520
Alex Rhys-Taylor
PART IX CIVILITY: CONTESTATION AND ENCOUNTER 533
29 The Contradictions of Urban Public Space: The View from
London and New York 535
David J. Madden
30 The Public Life of Social Capital 552
Talja Blokland
31 Johannesburg–Lagos: From the Speculative to the Littoral City 567
Sarah Nuttall
