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Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age
Contributor(s): McCann, Eugene (Editor), Ward, Kevin (Editor), Cochrane, Allan (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0816656290     ISBN-13: 9780816656295
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
OUR PRICE: $29.40  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geography
Dewey: 307.76
LCCN: 2010032726
Series: Globalization and Community (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" L (0.65 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 111
 
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Publisher Description:
Mobile Urbanism provides 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.
 
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