Rethinking urbanism : lessons from postcolonialism and the global south / Garth Myers.

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$a Front Cover -- Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Rethinking Urbanism from the South -- Introduction -- Debates on global and world cities -- The Los Angeles School, Lefebvre and planetary urbanization -- Thinking with 'the South' -- Conclusion -- 1 Southern Processes of Planetary Urbanization in Hartford -- Introduction -- Mapping Hartford as a Southern urbanism -- Indigenous Hartford -- Black and Caribbean transversal planetary Hartford -- People as infrastructure in north and south Hartford -- Conclusion -- 2 Villages in the City: Patterns of Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, Dakar, and Zanzibar -- Introduction -- The other South: planetary urbanization and the Pearl River Delta -- Comparing the patterns in the PRD and Sub-Saharan Africa -- Can this idea be taken elsewhere? -- Conclusion -- 3 The Useful and Ornamental Landscapes of British (Post)colonialism -- Introduction -- Postcolonial urbanism -- Comparing Trinidad and Zanzibar -- The useful and ornamental plants -- RO Williams in service to the British Empire -- Spaces of colonial nature in Port of Spain and Zanzibar -- Alternative landscapes of postcolonial urbanism -- Conclusion -- 4 Submarine Urbanism: Cities People Make in 'the Here and the Elsewhere' -- Introduction -- Translocal urbanism and migration: Glissant's poetic vision -- Port of Spain: jouvay urbanization -- San Juan: 'yo-yo boing' -- Cape Coast: door of return -- Zanzibar: here and elsewhere, a gravel heart -- Conclusion -- 5 'The Whole World Is Made in China': Products and Infrastructures of Dis/connection -- Introduction -- Economic/geographic understandings for intersections of globalization and urbanization.

$a This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism by using a wide range of case studies from lesser studied cities across the Global South and Global North to present evidence for the need to reconstruct our understanding of who and what makes urban environments. Myers explores the global hierarchy of cities, the criteria for positioning within these hierarchies and the successes of various policymaking approaches designed specifically to boost a city's ranking. Engaging heavily with postcolonial studies and Global South thinking, he shows how cities construct one another's spaces and calls for a new understanding of planetary urbanism that moves beyond Western-centric perspectives.

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