The City as a Global Political Actor (Paperback, 1)

1:An Urban Studies Take on Global Urban Political AgencyPART I: The City as a Site for Political Innovation 2: Reflecting on the ‘Global Parliament of Mayors’ Project 3: Social Inequality and Transformation of the Urban Economy 4: Voracious Cities and Obstructing States? 5: Global-Urban Policymaking 6: The Politics of the (Global) Urban: City Strategies as Repeated Instances 7: Whose Urban Agency Is It Anyway? PART II: Exploring City Political Agency around the Globe 8: Greening the Global City: The Role of C40 Cities as Actors in Global Environmental Governance 9: Metropolitan Regions as New Scales and Evolving Policy Concepts in the European Union's Policy Context 10: Building City Political Agency across Scales: the Johannesburg International Relations Strategy 11: A Closer Look at the Role of International Accolades in Worlding Cape Town’s Urban Politics 12: Urban Rehabilitation and Residential Struggles in the Post-socialist City of Budapest 13: Aspiring Global Nations? Tracing the Actors behind Belgrade's 'Nationally Important' Waterfront