Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South

Provides an approach to planetary urbanisation built from Southern thinking which offers a much needed concise critical intervention and offers a balance of conceptual discussion and re-maps cities from Indigenous, Asian, African, African-American, Latino/a, Caribbean and Latin American perspectives.

This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism that emanate from European and North American cities through a wide range of case studies from lesser studied cities across the Global South and Global North to present evidence for the need to reconstruct our understanding of ‘good’ urban environments.

He explores the global hierarchy of cities, the criteria for positioning within these hierarchies and the successes of various policymaking approaches designed specifically to boost a city’s ranking. Engaging heavily with postcolonial studies and global South thinking, Myers shows how cities construct one another’s spaces and calls for a new understanding of planetary urbanism that is more considerate of post-colonial experiences.