Eugene McCann is associate professor of geography at Simon Fraser University. Kevin Ward is professor of human geography at the University of Manchester.

• Foreword, Allan CochraneIntroduction. Urban Assemblages: Territories, Relations, Practices, and Power, Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward1. A Counterhegemonic Relationality of Place, Doreen Massey2. The Spaces of Circulating Knowledge: City Strategies and Global Urban Governmentality, Jennifer Robinson3. Creative Moments: Working Culture, Through Municipal Socialism and Neoliberal Urbanism, Jamie Peck4. Policies in Motion and in Place: The Case of Business Improvement Districts, Kevin Ward5. Points of Reference: Knowledge of Elsewhere in the Politics of Urban Drug Policy, Eugene McCann6. The Urban Political Pathology of Emerging Infectious Disease in the Age of the Global City, Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali7. Airports, Territoriality, and Urban Governance, Donald McNeillConclusion. Cities Assembled: Space, Neoliberalization, (re)Territorialization, and Comparison, Kevin Ward and Eugene McCannAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

"At the core of this book is the recognition that far and near no longer be taken for granted. This makes it possible to explore geographies of responsibility as they stretch across space, highlighting linkages that are otherwise rather too easy to avoid. It also makes it possible to explore the ways in which apparently distant phenomena can be drawn in by political actors to reinforce their position, to develop political initiatives, resolve or generate political controversy, and build political power and authority." -Allan Cochrane, from the Foreword