Urbanization in a Global Context

Urbanization in a Global Context is a contributed text that helps Canadian students understand the process of urbanization by examining cities outside Canada across the Global North and South. Truly international in its approach, it emphasizes the interconnectedness of urban places and fosters analysis that identifies the similarities and differences between cities in different world regions. Each chapter focuses on different contemporary urban issues - ranging from urban policy, climate change, and gender to transportation and water governance - and introduces current urban scholarly debates, grounding them in international case studies. How these issues resonate with the Canadian urban context is discussed in text boxes, which employ descriptive accounts, drawing on examples from a selection of small-, mid-, and large-sized Canadian cities. Activities and questions at the end of each chapter prompt students to collaborate with peers to further critically reflect upon how these urban issues could relate to their lived experience in Canadian cities.

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.