Jonathan Rokem (editor) - Urban Geopolitics: Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities

In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on similar case studies on a few selected cities in America and Europe and all too often focus on the abstract city level with marginal attention given to particular local contexts.

Moving away from loosely defined urban theories and contexts, this book argues it is time to start learning from and compare across different contested cities. It questions the long-standing Euro-centric academic knowledge production that is prevalent in urban studies and planning research. This book brings together a diverse range of international case studies from Latin America, South and South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East to offer an in-depth understanding of the worldwide contested nature of cities in a wide range of local contexts. It suggests an urban ontology that moves beyond the urban West and North as well as adding a comparative-relational understanding of the contested nature that Southern cities are developing.

This timely contribution is essential reading for those working in the fields of human geography, urban studies, planning, politics, area studies and sociology.

Jonathan Rokem, PhD, is Marie Skodowska-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).

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Urban Geopolitics
Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities
Edited by Jonathan Rokem and Camillo Boano

Edited by Jonathan Rokem and Camillo Boano

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SARA FREGONESE

JONATHAN ROKEM AND CAMILLO BOANO

Part introduction
JONATHAN ROKEM

GRUIA BDESCU

LIZA ROSE CIROLIA

JONATHAN ROKEM

Part introduction
CAMILLO BOANO

SADAF SULTAN KHAN, KAYVAN KARIMI AND LAURA VAUGHAN

PAWDA F. TJOA

APURBA KUMAR PODDER

Part introduction
JONATHAN ROKEM

MORIEL RAM

NIMROD LUZ AND NURIT STADLER

MOHAMED SALEH

Part introduction
CAMILLO BOANO

CAMILA COCIA AND ERNESTO LPEZ-MORALES

CATALINA ORTIZ AND CAMILLO BOANO

PETER D. A. WOOD

Part introduction
JONATHAN ROKEM

MICHAEL SAFIER WITH JONATHAN ROKEM AND CAMILLO BOANO

JAMES D. SIDAWAY

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Apurba Kumar Podder has recently completed his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He examines how illegality as a condition informs and shapes the internal dynamics of informal growth in developing cities.

Camila Cociiia is a Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL. Her current research focuses on housing policies and urban inequalities in the Chilean context.

Camillo Boano, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, and Director of the MSc in Building and Urban Design in Devel-opment. He is author of The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism: Critical Encounters Between Giorgio Agamben and Architecture (2017).

Catalina Ortiz, PhD, is Lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL. She is researching critical spatial practices intersecting urban design, land management, large-scale projects, strategic spatial planning and urban policy mobility in the Global South.