The Routledge handbook on spaces of urban politics

The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook's coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the interdisciplinary field of urban politics, drawing upon a range of examples from within and across the Global North and Global South.This handbook is organized into nine interrelated sections, with an introductory chapter setting out the rationale, aims and structure of the Handbook, and short introductory commentaries at the beginning of each part. It questions the eliding of 'urban politics' into the 'politics of the city', reconsidering the usefulness of the distinction between 'old' and 'new' urban politics, considering issues of 'class', 'gender', 'race' and the ways in which they intersect, appear and reappear in matters of urban politics, how best to theorize the roles of capital, the state and other actors, such as social movements, in the production of the city and, finally, issues of doing urban political research. The various chapters explore the issues of urban politics of economic development, environment and nature in the city, governance and planning, the politics of labour as well as living spaces. The concluding sections of the Handbook examine the politics over alternative visions of cities of the future and provide concluding discussions and reflections, particularly on the futures for urban politics in an increasingly 'global' and multidisciplinary context. With over forty-five contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of current conceptual and theoretical approaches and future developments in urban politics. It is a key reference to all researchers and policy-makers with an interest in urban politics.

Here, there and everywhere : rethinking the urban of urban politics / Allan Cochrane -- Place-based or place-positioned? : framing and making the spaces of urban politics / Deborah G Martin -- Ambivalence of the urban commons / Theresa Enright and Ugo Rossi -- The smart state as utopian urban politics / Yonn Dierwechter -- Pro-growth urban politics and the inner workings of public private partnerships / Christopher Mele and Matthew H. McLeskey -- The urban politics of strategic coupling in global production networks / Rachel Bok and Neil M. Coe -- The sky is not the limit : negotiating height and density in Toronto's condominium boom / Ute Lehrer and Peter Pantalone -- Digital technologies and the reconfiguration of urban space / Barney Warf -- Climate science and the city : consensus, calculation, and security in Seattle, Washington / Jennifer L. Rice -- Democratising the production of urban environments : working in, against and beyond the state, from durban to berlin / James Angel and Alex Loftus -- Politics of urban gardening / Marit Rosol -- Just green spaces of urban politics : a pragmatist approach / Ryan Holifield -- From sustainability to resilience : the hidden costs of recent socioenvironmental change in cities of the global North / David Sauri -- Transforming Rainey Street : the decoupling of equity from environment in Austin's smart growth agenda / Eliot Tretter and Elizabeth J. Mueller -- Cities on a grand scale : instant urbanism at the start of the twenty-first century / Martin J. Murray -- Urbanization, planning, and the possibility of being post-growth / Jason Hackworth -- Troubled buildings, distressed markets : the urban governance of the U.S. foreclosure crisis / Philip Ashton -- Housing the banlieu in global times : French public housing and spaces between neo-liberalization and hybridization / David Giband