Urbanization in a Global Context

Alison L. Bain is an Associate Professor of Geography at York University. Linda Peake is a Professor of Social Science who teaches in the Urban Studies program and the Graduate Program in Geography and is the Director of the CITY Institute at York University.

• Tables and FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsContributors1: Introduction: Global Urbanization and Urban Futures, Alison L. Bain and Linda PeakePART I: The "Infinite Variety" of the UrbanPreface: Part I2: Shifting Urban Contours: Understanding a World of Growing and Shrinking Cities, Kenneth Cardenas and Philip Kelly3: Suburbanization Worldwide, Richard Harris and Roger Keil4: The Right to the City: "The Slum" and Informal Urbanisms, Katharine Rankin, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, and Sabin Ninglehku5: "Instant" Cities? Rapid Urbanization and Spectacular Urbanisms, Penn Tsz Ting Ip and Michelle Buckley6: Spaces of Division: Gentrification, Gated Communities, and Social Mixing, Nicholas Lynch and Yolande Pottie-ShermanPART II: Imposing Order? Plans, Policies, and TechnologiesPreface: Part II7: Urban Planning, Indigenous Peoples, and Settler States, Ryan Walker and Sarem Nejad8: Inequality, Austerity, and Volatile Urban Housing Markets, Alan Walks and Dylan Simone9: Cultural Governance in Post-Industrial Cities, Alison L. Bain and Friederike Landau-Donnelly10: Urban Policy and Planning for the Climate Crisis, Daniel Aldana Cohen11: Smart Cities: Big Data and Surveillance, Brandon Hillier and Teresa AbbruzzesePART III: "Living Just Enough for the City"Preface: Part III12: Refugees, Immigration, and Urban Citizenship, Pablo Bose13: Women in Cities, Linda Peake and Geraldine Pratt14: Urban Governance, Ethnicity, Race, and Youth, Beverley Mullings and Abdul Alim Habib15: Healthy Cities, Godwin Arku, Richard Sadler, Laurence Simard-Gagnon, and Vera Chouinard16: LGBTQ+ Urban Social Worlds, Julie A. Podmore, Alison L. Bain, and Chan Arun-PinaPART IV: GroundworkPreface: Part IV17: More-Than-Human-Cities, Lauren Van Patter, Laura Shillington, and Alice Hovorka18: Water, Waste, and Sanitation in Cities, Rebecca McMillan, Carrie L. Mitchell, and Kate Parizeau19: Urban Transportation Infrastructure, Craig Townsend and Govind Gopakumar20: Urban Citizenship and Digital Citizenship: Public Spaces and Resistance, Ebru Ustundag and Gökbörü Sarp TanyildizGlossary of Key TermsIndex