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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Söderström, Ola
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, [2014]
Series:Studies in urban and social change.
Subjects:
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.