The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South

by Susan Parnell

Book Overview

The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook engages the complex ways in which cities of the global south and the global north are rapidly shifting, the imperative for multiple genealogies of knowledge production, as well as a diversity of empirical entry points to understand contemporary urban dynamics.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415789508
• ISBN13: 9780415789509
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 636 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 9.7"