Mobile urbanism [[electronic resource] ] : cities and policymaking in the global age / / Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, editors ; foreword by Allan Cochrane
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Mobile urbanism [[electronic resource] ] : cities and policymaking in the global age / / Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, editors ; foreword by Allan Cochrane
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.76 |
| Soggetto topico: | Urban policy |
| City planning | |
| Urbanization | |
| Altri autori: |
McCannEugene
WardKevin <1969->
CochraneAllan
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction. Urban Assemblages: Territories, Relations, Practices, and Power; 1 A Counterhegemonic Relationality of Place; 2 The Spaces of Circulating Knowledge: City Strategies and Global Urban Governmentality; 3 Creative Moments: Working Culture, through Municipal Socialism and Neoliberal Urbanism; 4 Policies in Motion and in Place: The Case of Business Improvement Districts; 5 Points of Reference: Knowledge of Elsewhere in the Politics of Urban Drug Policy; 6 The Urban Political Pathology of Emerging Infectious Disease in the Age of the Global City |
| 7 Airports, Territoriality, and Urban GovernanceConclusion. Cities Assembled: Space, Neoliberalization, (Re)territorialization, and Comparison; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mobile urbanism |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-7669-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781205203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Globalization and community ; ; v. 17.