Söderström Cities in Relations

Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-63278-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinkingabout urban transformation by focusing on transnational relationsin the least developed countries.
* Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi,Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
* Considers the ways in which a city's relationships withother places influences its urban development
* Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that movebeyond discussions of economic and policy factors
* Offers a clear and concise narrative accompanied by morethan 45 photos and maps

Autoren/Hrsg.

Söderström, Ola

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vii
List of Tables x
Acronyms xi
Series Editors' Preface xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements xiv
1 Comparing Cities in Relations 1
Relating Hanoi, Ouagadougou ... and Palermo 4
A Brief Introduction to Two Distant Cousins 5
World-city Research Beyond the West 9
Relational Geographies 12
Comparing Cities 17
The Structure of the Book 26
2 Trajectories of Urban Change in Two Ordinary Cities31
Regime Change in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 33
Forms of Relatedness 42
Conclusion 55
3 Transnational Policy Relations 60
Mobile Planners and City Networks 63
Concrete and Paper in Hanoi's Urban Development 64
Ouagadougou's Competing Worlds of Policy Relations 76
Conclusion 87
4 Public Space Policies on the Move 92
A Repertoire of Translocal Connections 94
Public Space: Understandings, Practices and Things 97
Translocal Connections and Public Space Policy in the Making103
The Politics of Translocal Connections 108
Traveling Participation and Public Space Design 110
Conclusion 116
5 Connecting to Circuits of Architectural Design 120
Stretched Geographies of Design 121
Circuits of Architectural Design in Hanoi and Ouagadougou123
Hanoi: Design Spaces of an Emerging Economy 125
Ouagadougou: Architectures of Development 131
Grounding Design 136
Conclusion: Transnational Learning Processes and"Banal" Nationalism 140
6 On Road Interchanges and Shopping Malls: What TravelingTypes Do 145
Modernization as Morality and Power 147
Modernization Through Ouagadougou's Built Environment150
Staging New Social Identities in Hanoi's Shopping Malls159
Conclusion 166
Conclusion: For a Politics of Urban Relatedness 171
Comparing Processes, Worlds of Relations, and Relational Effects172
The Evolving Relational Worlds of Cities 175
An Assets-based Politics of Relatedness 178
References 181
Index 196

Über Autor(innen)

Ola Söderström is Professor of Social andCultural Geography at the Institute of Geography, University ofNeuchâtel, Switzerland. He has published extensively on urbanmaterial culture, visual thinking in urban planning, and urbanglobalization. His current research focuses on a comparativeethnography of contemporary urban ways of life. He is the co-authorof Urban Cosmographies (2009) and the co-editor ofCritical Mobilities (2013) and Re-shaping Cities: HowGlobal Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form(2010).