Many Urbanisms

Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building

Martin J. Murray

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Columbia University Press
15 February 2022

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"Now, for the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities. But urbanization is accelerating in some places and slowing down in others. The sprawling megacities of Asia and Africa, as well as many other smaller and medium-sized cities throughout the ""Global South,"" are expected to continue growing. At the same time, older industrial cities in wealthier countries are experiencing protracted socioeconomic decline. Nonetheless, mainstream urban studies continues to treat a handful of superstar cities in Europe and North America as the exemplars of world urbanism, even though current global growth and development represent a dramatic break with past patterns.

Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today: tourist-entertainment cities with world-class aspirations; struggling postindustrial cities; megacities experiencing hypergrowth; and ""instant cities,"" or master-planned cities built from scratch. Murray shows how these different types of cities respond to different pressures and logics rather than progressing through the stages of a predetermined linear path. He highlights new spatial patterns of urbanization that have undermined conventional understandings of the city, exploring the emergence of polycentric, fragmented, haphazard, and unbounded metropolises. Such cities, he argues, should not be seen as deviations from a norm but rather as alternatives within a constellation of urban possibility. Innovative and wide-ranging, Many Urbanisms offers ways to understand the disparate forms of global cities today on their own terms."

By: Martin J. Murray
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780231204071
ISBN 10: 0231204078
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 15 February 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin J. Murray is a professor of urban planning in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, where he is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. His recent books include The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century (2017) and Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg (2020).

Reviews for Many Urbanisms: Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building

Many Urbanisms is an excellent work of synthesis, and Murray is a gifted writer. In this book, he integrates a massive amount of urban theory literature in order to emphasize the differences between cities and to challenge the notion of a North to South order within contemporary urbanization. -- Jason Hackworth, author of <i>Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt</i>