Changing cities
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Making use of critical spatial theory
    • 1.1 What do we mean by ‘theory’?
  • 2 Acting locally in a world of connections
    • 2.1 Places shaping and responding to global change
  • 3 Three ways of thinking about urban agency
    • 3.1 From urban theory to the problematisation of urban living
    • 3.2 Problematising urban processes
    • 3.3 Three types of questions about agency
  • 4 Explaining urban issues
    • 4.1 Urban theory and case studies
    • 4.2 The globalisation of urbanisation
    • 4.3 Living on the knife-edge
    • 4.4 The right to the city
    • 4.5 Limits to explanation
  • 5 Understanding urban issues
    • 5.1 Urbanism as a way of life
      • Living with others
    • 5.2 Urban space and the public sphere
      • Two types of solidarity
    • 5.3 Cities as communicative spaces
    • 5.4 Urban spaces of public address
  • 6 Acting on urban issues
    • 6.1 The politics of urbanisation processes
    • 6.2 The limits of localism I: the limits of inclusion
    • 6.3 The limits of localism II: the limits of efficacy
    • 6.4 Making use of the critical spatial thinking framework
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements

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