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With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for urban development. It makes the argument that all cities are best understood as ‘ordinary’, and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy between Western and other cities (especially those labelled ‘Third World’). It considers the two framing axes of urban modernity and development, and argues that if cities are to be imagined in equitable and creative ways, urban theory must overcome these axes with their Western bias and that resources must become at least as cosmopolitan as cities themselves. Tracking paths across previously separate literatures and debates, this innovative book - a postcolonial critique of urban studies - traces the outlines of a cosmopolitan approach to cities, drawing on evidence from Rio, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Kuala Lumpur. Key urban scholars and debates, from Simmel, Benjamin and the Chicago School to Global and World Cities theories are explored, together with anthropological and developmentalist accounts of poorer cities. Offering an alternative approach, Ordinary Cities skilfully brings together theories of urban development for students and researchers of urban studies, geography and development.

Hardcover:

9780415304870 | Routledge, April 9, 2006, cover price $195.00

Paperback:

9780415304887 | Routledge, February 8, 2006, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West.

Miscellaneous:

9780203506554 | Routledge, June 1, 2002, cover price $54.95

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Over 200 photographs by 54 photographers from nine newspapers capture the beauty and devastation of the ice storm of 1998. (view table of contents)

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9780771061004 | McClelland & Stewart Ltd, March 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Over 200 photographs by 54 photographers from nine newspapers capture the beauty and devastation of the ice storm of 1998.

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Product Description: Although there have been momentous changes in South Africa's recent political history, the spatial remnants of apartheid and the planning ideas which underpinned it remain to confound post-apartheid city planners. This book draws on detailed case studymaterial from one South African town, Port Elizabeth, to illustrate the relationship between the state, power, economy and spatial practices...read more

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9780750626897 | Butterworth-Heinemann, March 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Although there have been momentous changes in South Africa's recent political history, the spatial remnants of apartheid and the planning ideas which underpinned it remain to confound post-apartheid city planners.

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