... regulatory tools, thereby creating a market in urban development rights. The chapter analyzes how this market actually works—how it has unmoored the geographies and economies of the city’s built space from its material infrastructures both theoretically (in order to create the market) and in practice...

... subjectivity in-migration second society urban identity urban development ...

... race centralism urban development population growth ...

... China has promoted sustainable urban development since the early 2000s, particularly new urbanism ideals of TOD (transit-oriented development) of satellite towns. Yet most experts indicate that these new cities ultimately fail to meet their sustainability goals. Instead, entrepreneurial local...

...Urbanization As in other quickly developing cities, a prevalent trope for gentrified Beijing is the palimpsest. It places the passing of time within a narrative of spatial transformation and the preservation of collective memory. I propose that although palimpsest seems to offer a location...

... a Shanghai uniqueness that lives up to preconceived ideas about the city. subjectivity in-migration second society urban identity urban development ...

... and the many peoples that constitute Peru’s capital in the twenty-first century. While pointing out its problems past and present, the collection also offers samples of its rich tradition in literature, vibrant popular culture, and gastronomic traditions. race centralism urban development population...

...,” government social workers who manage the resettlement of “at risk” populations, and inhabitants of the self-built settlements of the urban periphery, where the majority of high-risk zones are located. It shows how the future becomes the common ground of both urban politics and government, and how both...

.... It argues that the emergence of risk management as a technique for governing cities and urban life does not imply a complete rejection of progressive modernist narratives but rather reworks them in surprising ways. Linking recent developments in Bogotá to wider shifts in paradigms of urbanism, it concludes...