Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South

Susan Parnell is an Urban Geographer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and also serves on the Executive of the African Centre for Cities, both at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Sophie Oldfield is a Geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

• 1. From the South Part 1: Critical Urbanism 2. Critical Urbanism3. Worlding the South: Toward a Postcolonial Urban Theory 4. Grounding Southern City Theory in Time and Place 5. Is There a ‘South’ Perspective to Urban Studies? 6. Disseminating ‘Best Practice’? The Coloniality of Urban Knowledge and City Models New Geographies of Theorizing the Urban: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban Studies Part 2: The Urban: Past, Present, Future 8. The Urban: Past, Present, Future 9. Shaping Cities of the Global South: Legal Histories of Planning and Colonialism 10. Troubling Continuities: Use and Utility of the Term ‘Slum’ 11. Learning Planning From the South: Ideas from the New Urban Frontiers 12. Urban Land Markets: A Southern Exposure 13. The Urbanization/Development Nexus in the BRICS Part 3: Global Economic Turbulence: (Re)configuring the Urban 14. Global Economic Turbulence: (Re)configuring the Urban 15. Globalizing Capitalism and Southern Urbanization 16. Steering, Speeding, Scaling: China’s Model of Urban Growth and its Implications for Cities of the Global South 17. Does African Urban Policy Provide a Platform for Sustained Economic Growth? 18. Disjunctures between Urban Infrastructure, Finance and Affordability 19. Re-Evaluating the Influence of Urban Agglomeration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Population Density, Technological Innovation and Productivity 20. The Urban Informal Economy: Enhanced Knowledge, Appropriate Policies and Effective Organization 21. Digital Dynamics: New Technologies and Work Transformations in African Cities Part 4: Politics, Transformation and the Southern City 22. Politics, Transformation and the Southern City 23. Substantiating Urban Democracy: The Importance of Popular Representation and Transformative Democratic Politics 24. The Politics of the Urban Everyday in Cairo: Infrastructures of Oppositional Action 25. Claiming ‘Rights’ in the African City: Popular Mobilization and the Politics of Informality in Nairobi, Casablanca, Johannesburg and Cape Town 26. The Urban Poor and Strategies for a Pro-Poor Politics: Reflections on Shack/Slum Dwellers International 27. Occupancy Urbanism as Political Practice 28. The Missing People: Reflections on an Urban Majority in Cities of the South Part 5: Negotiating Society and Identity in Urban Spaces of the South 29. Negotiating Society and Identity in Urban Spaces of the South 30. Conviviality and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Urban Africa 31. Contentious Identities? Urban Space, Cityness and Citizenship 32. The Place of Migrant Women and the Role of Gender in the Cities of Asia 33. Spaces of Difference: Challenging Urban Divisions from the North to the South 34. Hip-Hop Politics: Recognizing Southern Complexity 35. Gender is Still the Battleground: Youth, Cultural Production, and the Remaking of Public Space in São Paulo Part 6: Conceptualizing the Built Environment: Accounting for Southern Urban Complexities 36. Conceptualizing the Built Environment: Accounting for Southern Urban Complexities 37. Regulating Service Delivery in Southern Cities: Rethinking Urban Heterogeneity 38. The Politics and Technologies of Urban Waste 39. Urban Mobilities: Innovation and Diffusion in Public Transport 40. Urban Fragmentation, ‘Good Governance’ and the Emergence of the Competitive City 41. The New Divided City? Planning and ‘Gray Space’ Between Global North-West and South-East 42. Gentrification in the Global South? 43. Peri-Urbanization and the Political Ecology of Differential Sustainability Part 7: Big Stories of Urban Change 44. Big Stories of Urban Change 45. Approaching Food Security in Cities of the Global South 46. Healthy Cities of/from the South 47. Urban Poverty in Low-and Middle-Income Nations 48. Migration, Urbanization and Changing Gender Relations in the South 49. Urban Metabolism of the Global South 50. Urban Dynamics and the Challenges of Global Environmental Change in the South

"In all, this collection offers a stimulating and provocative set of essays which highlight both the prosaic empirical aspects of urban development in cities of the south, as well as offering critical engagement with relatively new debates." – Melanie Lombard, University of Manchester