"The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and take forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigour and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together at least 50 international scholars and practitioners,this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field, and extends current thinking and practice. The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, planning, and urban studies"--
This handbook is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition.
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition.
It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice.
The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, political studies, planning, and urban studies.
Introduction: Comparative Global Urban Studies in the Making: Welcome to
the World of Imperfect and Innovative Urban Comparisons Part I: Introduction:
Inheritance: Traditions in Comparative Urban Research
Chapter 1 Beyond the
City Limits: Comparison, Global Urbanism, and the Chicago School of Sociology
Chapter 2 Comparative strategies on and in Latin-American cities
Chapter 3
Comparative urban studies and African studies at the crossroads: From the
colonial situation to twilight institutions
Chapter 4 Comparative Urban
Studies in Asia: Old Players in Urbanization History or Emerging Game
Changers?
Chapter 5 Comparative urban studies in Europe
Chapter 6 Beyond
comparison with history and Actor-Network Theory
Chapter 7 Citizenship and
Inequality in the Post-Colonial City: Instituted Processes and Causal
Mechanisms
Chapter 8 The Role of Comparison in Urban Political Science
Chapter 9 The Contribution of the Sociological Approach to Comparative
Urban Studies
Chapter 10 Urban Social Movements: Comparing Conflicts and
Mobilizations Part II: Introduction: Methods and Research Design
Chapter 11
A Comparative Network Approach to the Study of Neighborhood-and City-Level
Inequality Based on Everyday Urban Mobility
Chapter 12 Making a Comparative
Case: The Art Biennial in Dakar and Taipei
Chapter 13 Frames and flows:
pan-urban policymaking and metropolitan transformation
Chapter 14 From
object biographies to data-centred assemblages: two experiments in relational
urban comparison
Chapter 15 Internal Migrations and Urban Transitions: A
Comparative Perspective
Chapter 16 Odious comparisons in urban studies. A
plea for comparative monographs
Chapter 17 A New Era for Commensurable
Comparative Urban Research? Machine Learning and/or Propagations
Chapter 18
Methodological manoeuvres: Comparative practices in urban policy making
Chapter 19 Politics and governance in metropolitan areas: a transnational
comparative perspective Part III: Introduction: Contexts
Chapter 20
Enabling Connections: Relational Comparison in a Global Conjunctural Frame
Chapter 21 Segregation studies: Overriding context through implicit
comparison?
Chapter 22 Specificity and Urbanisation: A Framework for
Comparative Analysis
Chapter 23 The Ends of Comparisoncalculative logics
and racial hauntings
Chapter 24 Cities in Their States
Chapter 25 Social
mix, super-diversity, and interactions in the neighborhood: Comparing US and
Western European perspectives
Chapter 26 Overcoming the Limitations of
Comparative Urban Research in the (Post)Socialist Context
Chapter 27 State
entrepreneurialism: theorising urban development politics from China
Chapter
28 Weak Comparisons: Navigating Differences and Commonalities among Cities
in Russia and Elsewhere
Chapter 29 The relevance of local factors for
understanding Italy: explaining territorial differentiation Part IV:
Introduction: Connections
Chapter 30 Coexisting Heterogeneity: Agrarian
Urban Entanglements in Indias Urbanizing Frontiers
Chapter 31 Socialist
Worldmaking: Comparative Research between the Socialist and Postcolonial
Countries during the Cold War
Chapter 32 Comparative Urban Studies Beyond
the City
Chapter 33 Global Cities Research as Comparative Urban Studies
Chapter 34 Genetic Comparisons: Tracing how global infrastructure
conditions peri-urban trajectories
Chapter 35 Archipelagic Thinking,
Southern Urbanism and Experimental Comparisons
Chapter 36 Allegory,
Psychasthenia, Horizon: Comparative Urbanism as Spectral Critique at the
Antipodes of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative Part V: Introduction:
Experiments
Chapter 37 New York and Cairo: a view from street level.
Chapter 38 Emotions as an Analytical Category in Comparative Urban Studies
Chapter 39 Concepts and Principles for Taking Bourdieu into the City
Chapter 40 Covid, contagion and comparative urban research
Chapter 41
Everyday cognition and historical tracing in comparative urban research:
Insights from a study of the BRICS
Chapter 42 Quilting Comparison: Wonder,
Translation and Theorization
Chapter 43 Tracing Materials to Locate the
Urban: The West African Corridor from Lagos to Abidjan
Chapter 44 How India
Urbanizes: Multiscalar and Multi-Sited Comparisons
Chapter 45 Ruled by the
Logic of Trans: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level
Chapter 45 Ruled by the Logic of Trans: Exploring the Religion of the
City on a Global Level
Patrick Le Galès FBA, MAE, is a CNRS Research Professor of Sociology, Politics and Urban studies at Sciences Po in Paris, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He was the founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School.
Jennifer Robinson has been a Professor of Human Geography at University College London since 2009 and co-director of UCLs Urban Laboratory since 2010. Previously she has worked at the Open University, the LSE, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
