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    The SAGE handbook of new urban studies / edited by John Hannigan and Greg Richards.

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    • Title:The SAGE handbook of new urban studies / edited by John Hannigan and Greg Richards.
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    • Variant Title:Handbook of new urban studies
      New urban studies
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Hannigan, John A., 1948- editor.
      Richards, Greg, editor.
    • Published/Created:Los Angeles : SAGE, [2017].
      ©2017

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Cities and towns.
      Sociology, Urban.
    • Medical Subjects: Cities
    • Edition:1st.
    • Description:xx, 585 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm
    • Summary:The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research. -- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781412912655 (hbk.)
      1412912652 (hbk.)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Greg Richards
      pt. I GLOBALIZED CITY
      2. Locating Transnational Urban Connections Beyond World City Networks / Tim Bunnell
      3. Frontier Financial Cities / Adam D. Dixon
      4. Eventful Cities: Strategies for Event-Based Urban Development / Greg Richards
      pt. II URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCE
      5. Twin Cities: Territorial and Relational Urbanism / David Bell
      6. Idealizing the European City in a Neoliberal Age / Philip Lawton
      1. City Branding as a Governance Strategy / Erik-Hans Klijn
      pt. III MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE
      8. Territorial Stigmatization: Symbolic Defamation and the Contemporary Metropolis / Tom Slater
      9. Liminal City: Gender, Mobility and Governance in a Twenty-First Century African City / Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
      10. Constructing and Contesting Resilience in Post-Disaster Urban Communities / Bradford Powers
      pt. IV SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL AND SUSTAINABILITY
      11. Emerging Geographies of Suburban Disadvantage / Bill Randolph
      12. Climate Change Challenge / Ian Smith
      13. Social Construction of Smart Growth Policies and Strategies / John Hannigan
      pt. V DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES
      14. Global Art City / Can-Seng Ooi
      15. Lights, City, Action... / Tim Edensor
      16. On Urban (In)Visibilities / Ricardo Campos
      17. Events as Creative District Generators? Beyond the Conventional Wisdom / Pier Luigi Sacco
      18. Mega-Events in Emerging Nations and the Festivalization of the Urban Backstage: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa / Malte Steinbrink
      pt. VI CREATIVE CITIES
      19. Urban Cultural Movements and the Night: Struggling for the `Right to the Creative (Party) City' in Geneva / Virginia Bjertnes
      20. Creative Cities
      An International Perspective / Graeme Evans
      21. Moving to Meet and Make: Rethinking Creativity in Making Things Take Place / Jørgen Ole Boerenholdt
      22. Creative Clusters in Urban Spaces / Lenia Marques
      23. Rebalancing the Creative City After 20 Years of Debate / Nienke van Boom
      pt. VII URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES
      24. Urbanization and Housing in Africa / Anthony J. Venables
      25. Differentiated Residential Orientations of Class Fractions / Sako Musterd
      26. Some Scenes of Urban Life / Daniel Silver
      27. Urban Foodscapes: Repositioning Food in Urban Studies Through the Case of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside / Eugene McCann
      pt. VIII NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY
      28. African Ideas of the Urban / Garth Myers
      29. New Frontiers in Researching Chinese Cities / Junxi Qian
      30. Informal Settlement and Assemblage Theory / Kim Dovey
      pt. IX URBAN FUTURES
      31. Changing Urban Future: The Views of the Media and Academics / Fabio Duarte
      32. Olympic Futures and Urban Imaginings: From Albertopolis to Olympicopolis / Margaret M. Gold
      33. Experiencing the Hybrid City: The Role of Digital Technology in Public Urban Places / Timo Ojala
      34. New Urban World: Challenges and Policy with Respect to Shrinking Cities / Neil Reid.
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