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The City as a Global Political Actor

The City as a Global Political Actor

Oosterlynck, Stijn
Beeckmans, Luce
Bassens, David

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

General SociologyGeographyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1138573574
ISBN13: 9781138573574
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 5 2018
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement that in the context of paralysed and failing nation state governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing global challenges.

Cities can act politically on the global scale, but the analysis of global urban political agency needs to be firmly embedded in the field of urban studies. Collectively, the chapters in this volume contextualize urban agency in time and space and pluralize it by looking at how urban agency is nurtured through coalitions between a wide range of public and private actors. The authors develop and critically assess the conceptual underpinnings of the notion of global urban political agency from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The second part contains several (theoretically informed) empirical analyses of global urban political agency in cities around the globe.

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