Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1: Introduction: Global Urbanization and Urban Futures, Alison L. Bain and Linda Peake
PART I: The "Infinite Variety" of the Urban
Preface: Part I
2: Shifting Urban Contours: Understanding a World of Growing and Shrinking Cities, Kenneth Cardenas and Philip Kelly
3: Suburbanization Worldwide, Richard Harris and Roger Keil
4: The Right to the City: "The Slum" and Informal Urbanisms, Katharine Rankin, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, and Sabin Ninglehku
5: "Instant" Cities? Rapid Urbanization and Spectacular Urbanisms, Penn Tsz Ting Ip and Michelle Buckley
6: Spaces of Division: Gentrification, Gated Communities, and Social Mixing, Nicholas Lynch and Yolande Pottie-Sherman
PART II: Imposing Order? Plans, Policies, and Technologies
Preface: Part II
7: Urban Planning, Indigenous Peoples, and Settler States, Ryan Walker and Sarem Nejad
8: Inequality, Austerity, and Volatile Urban Housing Markets, Alan Walks and Dylan Simone
9: Cultural Governance in Post-Industrial Cities, Alison L. Bain and Friederike Landau-Donnelly
10: Urban Policy and Planning for the Climate Crisis, Daniel Aldana Cohen
11: Smart Cities: Big Data and Surveillance, Brandon Hillier and Teresa Abbruzzese
PART III: "Living Just Enough for the City"
Preface: Part III
12: Refugees, Immigration, and Urban Citizenship, Pablo Bose
13: Women in Cities, Linda Peake and Geraldine Pratt
14: Urban Governance, Ethnicity, Race, and Youth, Beverley Mullings and Abdul Alim Habib
15: Healthy Cities, Godwin Arku, Richard Sadler, Laurence Simard-Gagnon, and Vera Chouinard
16: LGBTQ+ Urban Social Worlds, Julie A. Podmore, Alison L. Bain, and Chan Arun-Pina
PART IV: Groundwork
Preface: Part IV
17: More-Than-Human-Cities, Lauren Van Patter, Laura Shillington, and Alice Hovorka
18: Water, Waste, and Sanitation in Cities, Rebecca McMillan, Carrie L. Mitchell, and Kate Parizeau
19: Urban Transportation Infrastructure, Craig Townsend and Govind Gopakumar
20: Urban Citizenship and Digital Citizenship: Public Spaces and Resistance, Ebru Ustundag and Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz
Glossary of Key Terms
Index

About the Author

Alison L. Bain is an Associate Professor of Geography at York University.

Linda Peake is a Professor of Social Science who teaches in the Urban Studies program and the Graduate Program in Geography and is the Director of the CITY Institute at York University.