Urbanization in a Global Context

Edited by Alison Bain and Linda Peake

International Coverage, Canadian Perspectives. With strong thematic coverage of international cities, Urbanization in a Global Context is the only volume that helps students connect international trends and issues to the Canadian context.
Expert Contributors. With contributions by Canada's finest urban experts, Urbanization in a Global Context connects students with Canadian researchers working and researching internationally.
Coverage of the global North and South. Includes relevant coverage of cities globally to give students a strong foundation in the differences and similarities between cities in the developed and developing world.
Accessible. With strong foundational material, thematic chapters, and robust pedagogy Urbanization in a Global Context helps undergraduates create links between urban frameworks and issues and their everyday lives.

Urbanization in a Global Context

Edited by Alison Bain and Linda Peake

Description

Urbanization in a Global Context is a contributed text that helps Canadian students understand the process of urbanization by examining cities outside Canada across the global North and South. Truly international in its approach, it emphasizes the interconnectedness of urban places and fosters analysis that identifies the similarities and differences between cities in different world regions. Each chapter focuses on different contemporary urban issues - ranging from urban policy, climate change, and gender to transportation and water governance - and introduces current urban scholarly debates, grounding them in international case studies. How these issues resonate with the Canadian urban context is discussed in text boxes, which employ descriptive accounts, drawing on examples from a selection of small-, mid-, and large-sized Canadian cities. Activities and questions at the end of each chapter prompt students to collaborate with peers to further critically reflect upon how these urban issues could relate to their lived experience in Canadian cities.

Urbanization in a Global Context

Edited by Alison Bain and Linda Peake

List of Contributors
List of Tables and Figures
Preface: A Guide to the Text
Acknowledgments
1:Introduction: Urbanization and Urban Geographies, Linda Peake and Alison L. Bain
PART ONE - URBAN DEVELOPMENT
2:Shifting Urban Contours: Understanding a World of Growing and Shrinking Cities, Kenneth Cardenas and Philip Kelly
3:National Urban Systems in an Era of Transnationalism, André Sorensen
4:Globalizing Cities and Suburbs, Richard Harris and Roger Keil
5:Incremental and Instant Urbanization: Informal and Spectacular Urbanisms, Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin and Michele Buckley
PART TWO - URBAN POLICY AND PLANNING
6:Urban Policy and Governance: Austerity Urbanism, Betsy Donald and Mia Gray
7:Land Use and Creativity in Post-industrial Cities, Alison L. Bain and Rachael Baker
8:Socialist and Post-socialist Cities in the Twenty-First Century, Lisa B.W Drummond and Douglas Young
9:Urban Planning, Indigenous Peoples, and Settler States, Ryan Walker and Sarem Nejad
10:Urban Policy and Planning for Climate Change, Daniel Aldana Cohen
PART THREE - URBAN FORMS
11:Gentrification, Gated Communities, and Social Mixing, Nicholas Lynch and Yolande Pottie-Sherman
12:Unequal and Volatile Urban Housing Markets, Alan Walks and Dylan Simone
13:Urban Public Spaces, Virtual Spaces, and Protest, Ebru Ustundag and Gökbörü S. Tanyildiz
14:Urban Geopolitics: War, Militarization, and "The Camp", Nicole Laliberté and Dima Saad
PART FOUR - URBAN LIVES
15:Placing the Transnational Urban Migrant, Harjant S. Gill and Margaret Walton-Roberts
16:The Urban Poor: The Urban Majority and Everyday Life, Sabin Ninglekhu and Katharine Rankin
17:Women in Cities, Linda Peake and Geraldine Pratt
18:Urban Governance, Ethnicity, Race, and Youth, Beverley Mullings and Abdul Alim Habib
19:Disabling Cities, Nancy Worth, Laurence Simard-Gagnon, and Vera Chouinard
20:Cities, Sexualities, and the Queering of Urban Space, David K. Seitz and Natalie Oswin
PART FIVE - URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND LIVEABILITY
21:Plants, Animals, and Urban Life, Laura Shillington and Alice Hovorka
22:Healthy Cities, Godwin Arku and Richard Sadler
23:Urban Water Governance, Rebecca McMillan, Sawanya Phakphian, and Amrita Danière
24:Delivering and Managing Waste and Sanitation Services in Cities, Carrie L. Mitchell, Kate Parizeau, and Virginia Maclaren
25:Global Convergence and Divergence in Urban Transportation, Craig Townsend
26:Conclusion: Envisioning Global Urban Futures, Alison L. Bain and Linda Peake
Glossary of Key Terms
Index

Urbanization in a Global Context

Edited by Alison Bain and Linda Peake

Author Information

Edited by Alison Bain, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, York University, and Linda Peake, Professor, Department of Social Science, York University