To browse Academia. To cite this article: Allen J. Scott : Emerging cities of the third wave, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, , The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city.
The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research. From the review by Katherine Nesse : As a course text, it is appropriate for advanced students already well acquainted with urban theory and in courses where the readings can be paired with readings from other sources to give the issues more context.
It is a welcome addition to the urban studies curriculum and appropriate reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who want to think deeply about wicked problems. The depth of the readings and the number of them make it unlikely that a class would discuss the entire book in one term. It expands the conversation about cities, draws in new ideas and perspectives, and is a valuable reference for elaborating new directions in urban studies.
Economic, technological, demographic, social and cultural changes are currently reshaping cities so quickly than we imagined before. This era seemingly brings precarious transformations in every aspect of cities and human lives.
We live in a complex world system where it is necessary to understand how we are being affected by these emerging complexities. Handbook of emerging 21st-century cities not considered competitive enough to be ranked GaWC, The megacity, by contrast, ranks cities by absolute population size, with 47 cities meeting the megacity definition of a population of 10 million or greater, and roughly more cities having a population of 1 million or greater UNDESA, Interestingly, there is overlap between urban definitions, in that cities defined by one definition become more likely or less likely to also meet an alternative definition shown by the 40 out of 47 megacities that are also ranked as global cities.
