Mega-urbanization in the global South : fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state / / edited by Ayona Datta and Abdul Shaban

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations, photographs
• Disciplina: 307.1/216091724; 307.76091724
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Developing countries; City planning - Developing countries; Urban policy - Developing countries
• Altri autori: DattaAyona ShabanAbdul
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Fast cities and 'new' urban utopias -- pt. II. Entrepreneurial states -- pt. III. Mega-urbanization and masterplanning.
• Sommario/riassunto: With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial 'urban revolution'. It explores the contradictions between intended and unintended outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between state sovereignty, capital accumulation and citizenship. It presents urban scholars with the theoretical, empirical and methodological challenges of mega-urbanization in the global south, as well as highlighting new theoretical agendas and empirical analyses that these new forms of city-making bring to the fore.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mega-urbanization in the global South
• ISBN: 1-315-79783-6; 1-317-75473-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910149174203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in urbanism and the city.