Urban Governance

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84920-088-2
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Drawing on a diverse range of conceptual approaches, Urban Governance provides a theoretically informed and accessible contribution to the urban political governance literature. Examining a range of urban regions, the book covers:

- mappings and conceptualization of the contemporary urban forms;

- conceptualizations of the contemporary urban governance and politics;

- differences in governance of urban and urban-regional economies;

- emerging politics of 'anti-social' behaviour;

- new territorial demarcations formed out of interest groups;

- new claims to citizenship.

This book will be a timely addition for undergraduates studying urban geography, urban planning, urban political science and urban sociology. Tackling the complex and topical subject of urban governance and politics in the 21st century this is a lucid and engagingly written text for students, researchers and academics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacLeod, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY URBAN TRIUMPHALISM AND ITS SIGNATURE SCRIPT: A SPECULATIVE GOVERNANCE
Twenty-First Century Urban Triumphalism
Metropolitan Life as ‘Planetary Condition’
Metropolitan Contours: Patchwork Landscapes, Contingent Territories
City as Accumulation Strategy: Land, Rent, Dis/Re-Possession
Speculative Modes of Urban Governance
WHO GOVERNS, AND ON BEHALF OF WHOM?
So Who Does Govern? Community Power in Question
Who Governs What and on Behalf of Whom?
Landed Interests: City as Growth Machine
Empowering Governing Coalitions: Urban Regimes
Entrepreneurial Urban Governance
Neoliberal Urbanization and State Spatial Strategies
PRIVATIZING DOWNTOWN GOVERNANCE
Downtown as Enterprise Zone
Convivial Urbanism: Downtown Malls and Festival Marketplaces
‘Ordered, Clean and Safe’: Encoding the Consumerist Bubble
Business Improvement Districts: ‘Primary Definers’ of 21st Century Urban Governance?
Invented Downtown as Accumulation Regime: Integrated Mega-Projects
‘Quintessence of the Public Realm’: Whose Downtown?
METRO-GOVERNANCE
Twentieth Century Suburban Frontiers and Bourgeois Utopias
Post-Suburbia: Edge Cities and Shadow Governments
A Partitioning Metroburbia: Privatopias and Secessionary Place-Making
‘Suburban Constellations’: Territorializing Strategies of Urban Extension
Informality and Occupancy Urbanism: e.g. “Slum-Free Dharavi”
Summoning ‘Poor’ Communities
POLICING AN ORDERED METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE
Zero Tolerance of Urban Disorder: Populist Revanchism
De-Politicizing Urban Accumulation: Post-Political City?
De-Statizing Governance: ‘Taking the Politics out of Urban Development’
Investing in ‘Common Interests’: New Territorializations of Citizenship
In What Sense a Post-Political and Post-Democratic City?
INSURGENT URBAN POLITICS
On the Impossibility of Suppressing a City’s Grassroots
Insurgent Urbanisms: Righting ‘Wrongs’ for those with ‘No Part’
Occupation: Asserting a Right to the City
The Demos of Indignados: Raising the Stakes of Urban Politics
Quiet Encroachments: An Incremental Politics of the Everyday
Affirming ‘The Political’ in Urban Space
ORDERINGS, DISORDERINGS, DISJUNCTURES: TERRITORIALITIES OF THE URBAN STATE
Land, Property and Urban Politics
Gentrifying the Social Base of the Urban State
Austerity Urbanism and Geographies of Dispossession
Policing Urban Crises: Neoliberal Accumulation, Authoritarian Populism
Indignant of Bourgeois Governance: For a Dignified Urban Politics