Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Urban Policies: Market Ru
6. Sustainable City: Crisis and Opportunity in Mexico 13
7. Hostage Cities: Unsustainable Competition for Corporate Investment 25
8. Reframing Housing Value 43
9. PART II. Urban Practices: Connecting Communities
10. Notes toward a History of Agrarian Urbanism 63
11. The Art of Place-making 76
12. Beyond Boundaries 95
13. PART III. Urban Perceptions: Tigers, Tricksters, and Other Urban Legends
14. Chinese Cities: Design and Disappearance 111
15. From “The Dead” to the Dead: The Disposable Bodies and Disposable Culture of Celtic Tiger Noir 122
16. Imagining and Reimagining a Promised Land: The Gangster Genre and Harlem’s Mythic Past, Present, and Future 135
17. Notes on Contributors 155
18. Index 159