The city as a global political actor
In: Routledge studies in urbanism and the city
Weighing urban agency -- Reflecting on the "Global Parliament of Mayors" project -- Social inequality and transformation of the urban economy -- Voracious cities and obstructing states? -- Global-urban policy making -- The politics of the (global) urban : city strategies as repeated instances -- Greening the global city. The role of C40 cities as actors in global environmental governance -- Metropolitan regions as new scales and evolving policy concepts in the European Union's policy-context -- Building city political agency across scales : the Johannesburg international relations strategy -- A closer look at the role of international accolades in worlding Cape Town's urban politics -- Urban rehabilitation and residential struggles in the post-socialist city of Budapest -- Aspiring global nations? Tracing the actors behind Belgrade's 'nationally important' waterfront -- Whose urban agency is it anyway?