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Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.
* Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
* Considers the ways in which a city's relationships with other places influences its urban development
* Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that move beyond discussions of economic and policy factors
* Offers a clear and concise narrative accompanied by more than 45 photos and maps
Table des matières
List of Figures vii
List of Tables x
Acronyms xi
Series Editors' Preface xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements xiv
1 Comparing Cities in Relations 1
Relating Hanoi, Ouagadougou ... and Palermo 4
A Brief Introduction to Two Distant Cousins 5
World-city Research Beyond the West 9
Relational Geographies 12
Comparing Cities 17
The Structure of the Book 26
2 Trajectories of Urban Change in Two Ordinary Cities 31
Regime Change in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 33
Forms of Relatedness 42
Conclusion 55
3 Transnational Policy Relations 60
Mobile Planners and City Networks 63
Concrete and Paper in Hanoi's Urban Development 64
Ouagadougou's Competing Worlds of Policy Relations 76
Conclusion 87
4 Public Space Policies on the Move 92
A Repertoire of Translocal Connections 94
Public Space: Understandings, Practices and Things 97
Translocal Connections and Public Space Policy in the Making 103
The Politics of Translocal Connections 108
Traveling Participation and Public Space Design 110
Conclusion 116
5 Connecting to Circuits of Architectural Design 120
Stretched Geographies of Design 121
Circuits of Architectural Design in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 123
Hanoi: Design Spaces of an Emerging Economy 125
Ouagadougou: Architectures of Development 131
Grounding Design 136
Conclusion: Transnational Learning Processes and "Banal" Nationalism 140
6 On Road Interchanges and Shopping Malls: What Traveling Types Do 145
Modernization as Morality and Power 147
Modernization Through Ouagadougou's Built Environment 150
Staging New Social Identities in Hanoi's Shopping Malls 159
Conclusion 166
Conclusion: For a Politics of Urban Relatedness 171
Comparing Processes, Worlds of Relations, and Relational Effects 172
The Evolving Relational Worlds of Cities 175
An Assets-based Politics of Relatedness 178
References 181
Index 196
A propos de l'auteur
Ola Söderström is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Institute of Geography, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He has published extensively on urban material culture, visual thinking in urban planning, and urban globalization. His current research focuses on a comparative ethnography of contemporary urban ways of life. He is the co-author of
Urban Cosmographies (2009) and the co-editor of
Critical Mobilities (2013) and
Re-shaping Cities: How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form (2010).
Résumé
Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.
Commentaire
'Cities in Relations is a book of immense methodological and political importance. At a time when neoliberalism and globalization are thought to shape much of urban life, Ola Söderström offers a more imaginative way to grasp what is distinctive about worldly cities. The book is an invitation to urban studies to think again about the bases for comparison in a world where cities beyond the West have to negotiate different ways of being global.'
--John Allen, Professor of Economic Geography, The Open University, UK
'The idea that urbanism is relational is by now taken for granted, but what is far less common are detailed accounts of the forms, politics and implications of relationality, especially for cities too often neglected in urban theory. Through detailed and nuanced discussion of two quite different contexts - Hanoi and Ouagadougou - Söderström's rigorous and lively book provides an insightful investigation of the variegated and increasingly translocal politics of urban development, and offers important contributions to debates on both relational and comparative urbanism.'
--Colin McFarlane, Reader in Human Geography, Durham University, U
