Chapter
Table 1.1 Dimensions of governance
Table 2.1 The declining time needed for 1 billion additional urban dwellers
Table 2.2 Urban population by region, 1950–2000
Table 2.3 Geodemographic segmentation of Cape Town
Table 2.4 Regional distribution of the world’s urban slum dwellers
Table 2.5 Cost of water in Accra, Ghana
Figure 2.1 Scale of informal economic activity in developing countries
Figure 2.2 Slum population projections, 1990–2020
Box 3.1 Tenure systems and their characteristics
Figure 4.1 Municipal priorities and trade-offs
Figure 5.1 Domains of political engagement in the relational city
Box 6.1 Urban Think Tank: Caracas Case
Figure 7.1 Institutional dimensions of sustainable urban development
Figure 7.2 Overlapping dimensions of urban planning
Box 8.1 Typology of poverty reduction domains
Figure 8.1 Developmental linkages at the micro scale
1 Introduction: deciphering city futures
Recursive political empowerment
2 Urbanization trends and implications
Dimensions of the second wave of urbanization
Splintered network infrastructures
The rise and rise of slums
What is to be done about urbanization?
3 Mainstream agenda 1: shelter for all
Context of the shelter for all campaign
Tenets of the global campaign for secure tenure
Secure tenure, slum upgrading and participation
Infrastructure and environmental dimensions
4 Mainstream agenda II: good governance
Global Campaign on Urban Governance
City Development Strategy
5 Reconceptualizing the political in cities
Sketches of a conceptual model of urban politics
Domain one: representative politics
Domain two: neo-corporatist stakeholder forums
Domain three: direct action
Domain four: grassroots development practice
Domain five: symbolic politics
Public sphere + political sphere = vibrant democracy?
6 Informal everyday urbanism
Insurgent urbanism: encroachment of the ordinary
Tenacious insurgent activism: Shack/Slum Dwellers International
Popular culture and the negotiation of everyday violence
Public culture and the word: Sarai and Chimurenga
7 Counterpoint: alternative urban development
Alternative urban development perspective
Political economy of urban transformation
Unravelling political opportunity
Driving urban transformation: epistemic communities/strategic networks
8 Making a start towards alternative city futures
Multidimensional urban poverty reduction agenda
Micro anti-poverty actions
Tipping points of urban transformation
City Futures
：Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development
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