Cities in relations : trajectories of urban development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou / / Ola Söderström ; cover image Ola Söderström ; cover design by Simon Levy Associates

• Autore: Söderström Ola
• Pubblicazione: West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.7609597/3
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Vietnam - Hanoi; Urbanization - Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
• Soggetto geografico: Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Relations; Hanoi (Vietnam) Relations
• Persona (resp. second.): AssociatesSimon Levy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cities in Relations; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acronyms; Series Editors' Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Comparing Cities in Relations; Relating Hanoi, Ouagadougou ... and Palermo; A Brief Introduction to Two Distant Cousins; World-city Research Beyond the West; Relational Geographies; Critiques of relational geographies; Relations, novelty and territoriality; Comparing Cities; Comparative strategies; What to compare; How to compare; Object biographies; The Structure of the Book; Notes; 2 Trajectories of Urban Change in Two Ordinary Cities ; Regime Change in Hanoi and Ouagadougou Hanoi 1945-2012; Ouagadougou 1960-2012; Forms of Relatedness; Capital flows; Flows of people; Flows of information; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Transnational Policy Relations; Mobile Planners and City Networks; Concrete and Paper in Hanoi's Urban Development; Cosmetic master-planning 7; Performative transnational relations in Hanoi; Ouagadougou's Competing Worlds of Policy Relations; The state versus the municipality; "Simonville" or the logics of translocal connections 37; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Public Space Policies on the Move ; A Repertoire of Translocal Connections Public Space: Understandings, Practices and Things; Translocal Connections and Public Space Policy in the Making; Policy mobility; Topological policy relations; Inter-referencing; The Politics of Translocal Connections; Traveling Participation and Public Space Design; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Connecting to Circuits of Architectural Design; Stretched Geographies of Design; Circuits of Architectural Design in Hanoi and Ouagadougou; Hanoi: Design Spaces of an Emerging Economy; Becoming iconic ; "Ciputra Hanoi International City": conceiving large scale in spaces in between Fusion architecture designed at a distance; Ouagadougou: Architectures of Development; Reemdoogo: a co-produced city-network design; The Centre pour le bien-être des femmes: a contested NGO design; Grounding Design; Conclusion: Transnational Learning Processes and "Banal" Nationalism; Notes; 6 On Road Interchanges and Shopping Malls: What Traveling Types Do; Modernization as Morality and Power; Postcolonial urban modernization; Pedagogies and affordances in modernized urban forms ; Modernization Through Ouagadougou's Built Environment Staging New Social Identities in Hanoi's Shopping Malls; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion: For a Politics of Urban Relatedness; Comparing Processes, Worlds of Relations, and Relational Effects; The Evolving Relational Worlds of Cities; An Assets-based Politics of Relatedness; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Considers the ways in which a city's relationships with other places influences its urban development Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that move beyond discussions of economic and policy factors Offers a clear and concise narrative accompanied by more than 45 photos and maps
• Titolo autorizzato: Cities in relations
• ISBN: 1-118-63277-X; 1-118-63275-3; 1-118-63278-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808029503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in urban and social change.