Jonathan Rokem, PhD, is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), UK. His research interests and publications focus on spatial and social critical analysis of cities and regions.Camillo Boano, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit and Director of the MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development, UCL, UK. He is author of The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism: Critical Encounters Between Giorgio Agamben and Architecture (2017).

• Foreword Introduction: Towards Contested Urban Geopolitics on a Global Scale Part I Comparative Urban Geopolitics 1. Post-War Reconstruction in Contested Cities: Comparing Urban Outcomes in Sarajevo and Beirut 2. Negotiating Cities: Nairobi and Cape Town 3. Ordinary Urban Geopolitics: Contrasting Jerusalem and Stockholm Part II Urban Geopolitics: South and South East Asia 4. The Tale of Ethno-political and Spatial Claims in a Contested City: The Muhajir Community in Karachi 5. The Practice of ‘Marketplace Coordination’ in Jakarta (1977–98) 6. The Politics of Doing Nothing: A Rethinking of the Culture of Poverty in Khulna c. 1882–1990 Part III Urban Geopolitics: Middle East and North Africa 7. The Camp vs the Campus: The Geopolitics of Urban Thresholds in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus 8. Urban Planning, Religious Voices and Ethnicity in the Contested City of Acre: The Lababidi Mosque Explored 9. Exploring the Roots of Contested Public Spaces of Cairo: Theorizing Structural Shifts and Increased Complexity Part IV Urban Geopolitics: Latin America 10. Unpacking Narratives of Social Conflict and Inclusion: Anti-gentrification Neighbourhood Organisation in Santiago, Chile 11. The Medellín's Shifting Geopolitics of Informality: The Encircled Garden as a Dispositive of Civil Disenfranchisement? 12. Assessing Critical Urban Geopolitics in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil Part V Comparative Discussion 13. Geopolitics, Cosmopolitanism and Planning: Contested Cities in a Global Context Afterword: Lineages of Urban Geopolitics