Chapter
Part I The Globalized City
Chapter 2: Locating Transnational Urban Connections Beyond World City Networks
Chapter 3: Frontier Financial Cities
Chapter 4: Eventful Cities: Strategies for Event-Based Urban Development
PART II Urban Entrepreneurialism, Branding, Governance
Chapter 5: Twin Cities: Territorial and Relational Urbanism
Chapter 6: Idealizing the European City in a Neoliberal Age
Chapter 7: City Branding as a Governance Strategy
PART III Marginality, Risk and Resilience
Chapter 8: Territorial Stigmatization: Symbolic Defamation and the Contemporary Metropolis
Chapter 9: The Liminal City: Gender, Mobility and Governance in a Twenty-first Century African City1
Chapter 10: Constructing and Contesting Resilience in Post-Disaster Urban Communities
PART IV Suburbs and Suburbanization: Stratification, Sprawl and Sustainability
Chapter 11: Emerging Geographies of Suburban Disadvantage
Chapter 12: The Climate Change Challenge
Chapter 13: Social Construction of Smart Growth Policies and Strategies
PART V Distinctive and Visible Cities
Chapter 14: The Global Art City
Chapter 15: Lights, City, Action…
Chapter 16: On Urban (In)Visibilities
Chapter 17: Events as Creative District Generators? Beyond the Conventional Wisdom
Chapter 18: Mega-Events in Emerging Nations and the Festivalization of the Urban Backstage: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa
Chapter 19: Urban Cultural Movements and the Night: Struggling for the ‘Right to the Creative (Party) City’ in Geneva
Chapter 20: Creative Cities – An International Perspective
Chapter 21: Moving to Meet and Make: Rethinking Creativity in Making Things Take Place
Chapter 22: Creative Clusters in Urban Spaces
Chapter 23: Rebalancing the Creative City After 20 Years of Debate
PART VII Urbanization, Urbanity and Urban Lifestyles
Chapter 24: Urbanization and Housing in Africa
Chapter 25: Differentiated Residential Orientations of Class Fractions
Chapter 26: Some Scenes of Urban Life
Chapter 27: Urban Foodscapes: Repositioning Food in Urban Studies Through the Case of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
PART VIII New Directions in Urban Theory
Chapter 28: African Ideas of the Urban
Chapter 29: New Frontiers in Researching Chinese Cities
Chapter 30: Informal Settlement and Assemblage Theory
Chapter 31: The Changing Urban Future: The Views of the Media and Academics
Chapter 32: Olympic Futures and Urban Imaginings: from Albertopolis to Olympicopolis
Chapter 33: Experiencing the Hybrid City: The Role of Digital Technology in Public Urban Places
Chapter 34: The New Urban World: Challenges and Policy with Respect to Shrinking Cities