Many Urbanisms - Martin J. Murray

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Résumé :
Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today.

Biographie:
Martin J. Murray is a professor of urban planning in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, where he is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. His recent books include The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century (2017) and Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg (2020).

Sommaire:
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Rethinking Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Part I. Conventional Urban Theory at a Crossroads
1. The Narrow Preoccupations of Conventional Urban Studies
2. The Universalizing Pretensions of Mainstream Urban Studies: Generic Cities and the Convergence Thesis
Part II. Trajectories of Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century: A First Approximation
3. Globalizing Cities with World-Class Aspirations: The Emergence of the Postindustrial Tourist-Entertainment City
4. Struggling Postindustrial Cities in Decline
5. Sprawling Megacities of Hypergrowth: The Unplanned Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century
6. Building Cities on a Grand Scale: The Instant Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century
Part III. The Future of Urbanism
7. Conclusion: Urban Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Index