Urban Geographies: Politics, Pandemics, Protests, People's Rights
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 320
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Of pressing concern in these uncertain times are the structures and livability of urban societies, and how we join with planners and policymakers to create and transform our social and physical spaces. In 2019, the first modern world pandemic began in a local Chinese wet market and rapidly diffused through urban global hierarchies. Globalization and the excesses of capitalism seem to have created a world of greater urban risk. Densely packed urban populations live alongside bats, rodents, pets, birds and other living things. The 2019/20 Covid-19 pandemic mandated a global shut-down with consequential changes in urban health, economies and lifestyles.
Urban Geographies: Politics, Pandemics & People's Rights looks closely at the spatial importance of local and global connectivity. In addition to pandemic threats there are pressing issues such urban gentrification, revitalization, political, economic and social restructuring, and social and political activism. Within cities today, wealth and poverty reside cheek-by-jowl. Racial, sexual, and ethnic minorities along with women, children and the elderly fight for representation and political power. Many neighborhoods are no longer safe and the household is an increasingly marginalized economic unit. Within cities, nature and healthy living are at the forefront of concerns, but there is also a rise of communities of care and mutual aid. This books covers these matters as they relate to space, urban living and global connectivity.
Chapter 1. The Urban Geographer
- How Do We Study Cities?
- How Do We Make Cities Better?
- Further Reading
Chapter 2. Thinking about City Spaces
- Urban Spatial Contexts
- Defining Cities
- Urban Spatial Conundrums: A Chinese Case Study
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 3. Origins and Early Spatial Development of Cities
- Locations of Early Cities
- Preconditions for Settlement
- Unique Spatial Structures
- Empires and the Diffusion of Urbanization
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 4. Empires, Merchants and the Birth of Capitalism
- The Medieval/Merchant City
- Were the European Dark Ages Really that Isolated and Bleak?
- Medieval Trade, Guilds and Urbanism
- Urban Connectivity and Pandemics
- Health and City Structures
- The Birth of Capitalism
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 5. The Industrial Era
- The Industrial City: Resource Hinterlands and Mass Migration
- Changing Social and Spatial Structures
- The Division of Labor and Urban Structure
- Empire and Colonial Urbanism
- The Development of the North American Urban System
- Transportation Technologies
- Social and Political Responses to the Industrial City
- Refusal
- Revolution
- Reform
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 6. Producing the Contemporary City
- Urban Land Use
- The Central Business District
- Relations of Economic and Political Urban Production
- Classical Urban Economic Rationalities
- Urban Political Economies
- Spatial Decentralization
- Transportation Technologies
- The Density Debate
- Suburbs and Segregation
- Gendered Landscapes
- Family Fantasies and Community Space
- Family Fantasies and Community Space
Chapter 7. Urban Social, Spatial and Ecological Theories
- Urban Sociological and Morphological Theories
- The Fin-de-siècle European Urban Theorists
- The Chicago School of Urban Ecology
- The Los Angeles School and the Postmodern/Post-structural City
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 8. Nature, Pandemics and Urban Livability
- Covid-19: the pandemic that changed how we live
- The Rift between Civilization and Wild Nature in California
- Nature and Urban Development
- Urban Livability
- Re-Imagining the City
- Sense of Place
- A Return to Nature?
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 9. Revitalization and Gentrification
- Quaint?: Tucson’s Barrio Viejo
- Close to the CBD?: London’s Docklands
- Waterside?: Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
- The Rent Gap: A Theory of Gentrification
- People ‘Without Space’: Social Justice and Eastern European Gentrification
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 10. Global Urbanization
- From Empire to Globalization and Neoliberalism
- Capitalism, Power and World City Networks
- The Limits of Global Urbanization
- Global South Urban Dilemmas and Solutions
- Solutions from the Latin American City
- Post-Colonial Cities: Asia and Africa
- China’s Mega- and Ghost-Cities
- Favela Fantasies
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 11. The Right to the City
- The Political Landscape of the City
- A Trial for Space in San Diego’s Chicano Park
- British Green Belts and the Right to Make Money
- Christiana, Copenhagen: Squatting as a Right
- Vienna’s Baugruppen and the Right to Community
- The Right to the City: Sites of Production and Reproduction
- The Children of the Zócalo
- Rights in Place and Rights to Space
- Urban Citizenship
- Tijuana and Working Children
- Santiago, Chile, and the Protest for Education
- Sao Paulo and the Protest for Urban Space
- Concluding Comment
- Further Reading
Chapter 12. Five Radical Ideas for Urban Living
- Design with Nature
- Curb Excessive Material and Digital Developments
- Put Children at the Heart of Cities
- Construct Public Urban Places
- Create Ethical Sustainability