Urban Governance

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY URBAN TRIUMPHALISM AND ITS SIGNATURE SCRIPT: A SPECULATIVE GOVERNANCE Twenty-First Century Urban Triumphalism Metropolitan Life as 'Planetary Condition' Metropolitan Contours: Patchwork Landscapes, Contingent Territories City as Accumulation Strategy: Land, Rent, Dis/Re-Possession Speculative Modes of Urban Governance WHO GOVERNS, AND ON BEHALF OF WHOM? So Who Does Govern? Community Power in Question Who Governs What and on Behalf of Whom? Landed Interests: City as Growth Machine Empowering Governing Coalitions: Urban Regimes Entrepreneurial Urban Governance Neoliberal Urbanization and State Spatial Strategies PRIVATIZING DOWNTOWN GOVERNANCE Downtown as Enterprise Zone Convivial Urbanism: Downtown Malls and Festival Marketplaces 'Ordered, Clean and Safe': Encoding the Consumerist Bubble Business Improvement Districts: 'Primary Definers' of 21st Century Urban Governance? Invented Downtown as Accumulation Regime: Integrated Mega-Projects 'Quintessence of the Public Realm': Whose Downtown? METRO-GOVERNANCE Twentieth Century Suburban Frontiers and Bourgeois Utopias Post-Suburbia: Edge Cities and Shadow Governments A Partitioning Metroburbia: Privatopias and Secessionary Place-Making 'Suburban Constellations': Territorializing Strategies of Urban Extension Informality and Occupancy Urbanism: e.g. "Slum-Free Dharavi" Summoning 'Poor' Communities POLICING AN ORDERED METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE Zero Tolerance of Urban Disorder: Populist Revanchism De-Politicizing Urban Accumulation: Post-Political City? De-Statizing Governance: 'Taking the Politics out of Urban Development' Investing in 'Common Interests': New Territorializations of Citizenship In What Sense a Post-Political and Post-Democratic City? INSURGENT URBAN POLITICS On the Impossibility of Suppressing a City's Grassroots Insurgent Urbanisms: Righting 'Wrongs' for those with 'No Part' Occupation: Asserting a Right to the City The Demos of Indignados: Raising the Stakes of Urban Politics Quiet Encroachments: An Incremental Politics of the Everyday Affirming 'The Political' in Urban Space ORDERINGS, DISORDERINGS, DISJUNCTURES: TERRITORIALITIES OF THE URBAN STATE Land, Property and Urban Politics Gentrifying the Social Base of the Urban State Austerity Urbanism and Geographies of Dispossession Policing Urban Crises: Neoliberal Accumulation, Authoritarian Populism Indignant of Bourgeois Governance: For a Dignified Urban Politics