1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition.
It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice.
The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, political studies, planning, and urban studies.
Introduction: Comparative Global Urban Studies in the Making: Welcome to the World of Imperfect and Innovative Urban Comparisons
Patrick Le Galés and Jennifer Robinson
Part I: Introduction: Inheritance: Traditions in Comparative Urban Research
Chapter 1 – Beyond the City Limits: Comparison, Global Urbanism, and the Chicago School of Sociology
Gareth A. Jones and Dennis Rodgers
Chapter 2 – Comparative strategies on and in Latin-American cities
Eduardo Marques
Chapter 3 – Comparative urban studies and African studies at the crossroads: From the colonial situation to twilight institutions
Laurent Fourchard
Chapter 4 – Comparative Urban Studies in Asia: Old Players in Urbanization History or Emerging Game Changers?
Takashi Machimura
Chapter 5 – Comparative urban studies in Europe
Claire Colomb and Yuri Kazepov
Chapter 6 – Beyond comparison with history and Actor-Network Theory
Bert De Munck
Chapter 7 – Citizenship and Inequality in the Post-Colonial City: Instituted Processes and Causal Mechanisms
Patrick Heller and Partha Mukhopadhyay
Chapter 8 – The Role of Comparison in Urban Political Science
Alison E. Post
Chapter 9 – The Contribution of the Sociological Approach to Comparative Urban Studies
Alberta Andreotti and Diego Coletto
Chapter 10 – Urban Social Movements: Comparing Conflicts and Mobilizations
Walter J. Nicholls and Amrita Vijay Jain
Part II: Introduction: Methods and Research Design
Chapter 11 – A Comparative Network Approach to the Study of Neighborhood-and City-Level Inequality Based on Everyday Urban Mobility
Robert J. Sampson and Jennifer Candipan
Chapter 12 – Making a Comparative Case: The Art Biennial in Dakar and Taipei
Julie Ren
Chapter 13 – Frames and flows: pan-urban policymaking and metropolitan transformation
Nik Theodore and Jamie Peck
Chapter 14 – From object biographies to data-centred assemblages: two experiments in relational urban comparison
Ola Söderström
Chapter 15 – Internal Migrations and Urban Transitions: A Comparative Perspective
Gregory F. Randolph and Michael Storper
Chapter 16 – Odious comparisons in urban studies: A plea for comparative monographs
Gilles Pinson
Chapter 17 – A New Era for Commensurable Comparative Urban Research? Machine Learning and/or Propagations
Dominique Boullier
Chapter 18 – Methodological manoeuvres: Comparative practices in urban policymaking
Kevin Ward
Chapter 19 – Politics and governance in metropolitan areas: a transnational comparative perspective
Daniel Kübler and Jefferey M. Sellers
Part III: Introduction: Contexts
Chapter 20 – Enabling Connections: Relational Comparison in a Global Conjunctural Frame
Gillian Hart
Chapter 21 – Segregation studies: Overriding context through implicit comparison?
Thomas Maloutas
Chapter 22 – Specificity and Urbanisation: A Framework for Comparative Analysis
Christian Schmid
Chapter 23 – The Ends of Comparison—calculative logics and racial hauntings
AbdouMaliq Simone
Chapter 24 – Cities in Their States
Göran Therborn
Chapter 25 – Social mix, super-diversity, and interactions in the neighborhood: Comparing US and Western European perspectives
Christine Barwick
Chapter 26 – Overcoming the Limitations of Comparative Urban Research in the (Post-)Socialist Context
Slavomíra Ferenčuhová
Chapter 27 – State entrepreneurialism: theorising urban development politics from China
Fulong Wu
Chapter 28 – Weak Comparisons: Navigating Differences and Commonalities among Cities in Russia and Elsewhere
Elena Trubina
Chapter 29 – The relevance of local factors for understanding Italy: explaining territorial differentiation
David Benassi
Part IV: Introduction: Connections
Chapter 30 – ‘Coexisting Heterogeneity’: Agrarian Urban Entanglements in India’s Urbanizing Frontiers
Shubhra Gururani
Chapter 31 – Socialist Worldmaking: Comparative Research between the Socialist and Postcolonial Countries during the Cold War
Łukasz Stanek
Chapter 32 – Comparative Urban Studies Beyond the City
Manuel. B. Aalbers
Chapter 33 – Global Cities Research as Comparative Urban Studies
David Bassens, Ben Derudder, and Michiel van Meeteren
Chapter 34 – Genetic Comparisons: Tracing how global infrastructure conditions peri-urban trajectories
J. Miguel Kanai and Seth Schindler
Chapter 35 – Archipelagic Thinking, Southern Urbanism and Experimental Comparisons
Garth Myers
Chapter 36 – Allegory, Psychasthenia, Horizon: Comparative Urbanism as Spectral Critique at the Antipodes of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative
Olivier Thomas Kramsch
Part V: Introduction: Experiments
Chapter 37 – New York and Cairo: a view from street level.
Janet Abu-Lughod
Chapter 38 – Emotions as an Analytical Category in Comparative Urban Studies
Joseph Ben Prestel
Chapter 39 – Concepts and Principles for Taking Bourdieu into the City
Loïc Wacquant
Chapter 40 – Covid, contagion and comparative urban research
Roger Keil
Chapter 41 – Everyday cognition and historical tracing in comparative urban research: Insights from a study of the BRICS
Philip Harrison
Chapter 42 – Quilting Comparison: Wonder, Translation and Theorization
Julie-Anne Boudreau, Célia Bensiali and Laura Andrea Ferro-Higuera
Chapter 43 – Tracing Materials to Locate the Urban: The West African Corridor from Lagos to Abidjan
Armelle Choplin
Chapter 44 – How India Urbanizes: Multiscalar and Multisited Comparisons
Marie-Hélène Zérah
Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of "Trans": Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level
Stephan Lanz
Biography
Patrick Le Galès FBA, MAE, is a CNRS Research Professor of Sociology, Politics and Urban studies at Sciences Po in Paris, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He was the founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School.
Jennifer Robinson has been a Professor of Human Geography at University College London since 2009 and co-director of UCL’s Urban Laboratory since 2010. Previously she has worked at the Open University, the LSE, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
