Cities in relations : trajectories of urban development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou /
Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2014]
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| Series: | Studies in urban and social change.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Comparing Cities in Relations
- Relating Hanoi, Ouagadougou and Palermo
- A Brief Introduction to Two Distant Cousins
- World-city Research Beyond the West
- Relational Geographies
- Comparing Cities
- The Structure of the Book
- 2. Trajectories of Urban Change in Two Ordinary Cities
- Regime Change in Hanoi and Ouagadougou
- Forms of Relatedness
- Conclusion
- 3. Transnational Policy Relations
- Mobile Planners and City Networks
- Concrete and Paper in Hanoi's Urban Development
- Ouagadougou's Competing Worlds of Policy Relations
- Conclusion
- 4. Public Space Policies on the Move
- A Repertoire of Translocal Connections
- Public Space: Understandings, Practices and Things
- Translocal Connections and Public Space Policy in the Making
- The Politics of Translocal Connections
- Traveling Participation and Public Space Design
- Conclusion
- 5. Connecting to Circuits of Architectural Design
- Stretched Geographies of Design
- Circuits of Architectural Design in Hanoi and Ouagadougou
- Hanoi: Design Spaces of an Emerging Economy
- Ouagadougou: Architectures of Development
- Grounding Design
- Conclusion: Transnational Learning Processes and Banal Nationalism
- 6. On Road Interchanges and Shopping Malls: What Traveling Types Do
- Modernization as Morality and Power
- Modernization Through Ouagadougou's Built Environment
- Staging New Social Identities in Hanoi's Shopping Malls
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: For a Politics of Urban Relatedness
- Comparing Processes, Worlds of Relations, and Relational Effects
- The Evolving Relational Worlds of Cities
- An Assets-based Politics of Relatedness.