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Critical urban scholarship today is full of studies of “other” cities—not just of the usual suspects in the global pantheon seeking to outdo one another in lists of achievement, splendor, power, and influence, but examinations of many others of varying sizes, histories, and contexts as well. An increasing number of books and articles seek to explore the urban beyond those sites that have tended to dominate the urban imaginary—studies that extend our perspectives beyond the tales of gentrification and revanchism in New York and Los Angeles, of finance capital in London and Hong Kong, of neoliberal urbanism in Paris and Tokyo, of spectacular transformations in Dubai and Singapore. This turn to “the elsewhere” has been a reaction in part to the fetishization of so-called “world cities”—their assumed rankings and the attempts to quantify power and prestige in the urban. Too often such a focus has led not to critique or...