The City As a Global Political Actor
In: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Ser
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- List of editors -- 1 An urban studies take on global urban political agency -- PART I: The city as a site for political innovation -- 2 Reflecting on the 'Global Parliament of Mayors' project -- 3 Social inequality and transformation of the urban economy -- 4 Voracious cities and obstructing states? -- 5 Global-urban policymaking -- 6 The politics of the (global) urban: city strategies as repeated instances -- 7 Whose urban agency is it anyway? -- PART II: Exploring city political agency around the globe -- 8 Greening the global city: the role of C40 cities as actors in global environmental governance -- 9 Metropolitan regions as new scales and evolving policy concepts in the European Union's policy context -- 10 Building city political agency across scales: the Johannesburg International Relations Strategy -- 11 A closer look at the role of international accolades in worlding Cape Town's urban politics -- 12 Urban rehabilitation and residential struggles in the post-socialist city of Budapest -- 13 Aspiring global nations? Tracing the actors behind Belgrade's 'nationally important' waterfront -- Index