Geographies of Urban Governance Advanced Theories, Methods and Pract
With a current population inflow into cities of 200,000 people per day, UN Habitat expects that up to 75% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. Influenced by forces of globalization and global change, cities and urban life are transforming
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phies of Urban Governance Advanced Theories, Methods and Practices
Geographies of Urban Governance
Joyeeta Gupta • Karin Pfeffer Hebe Verrest • Mirjam Ros-Tonen Editors
Geographies of Urban Governance Advanced Theories, Methods and Practices
Editors Joyeeta Gupta Karin Pfeffer Hebe Verrest Mirjam Ros-Tonen Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-319-21271-5 ISBN 978-3-319-21272-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21272-2
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Liber Amicorum
Foreword by the Editors
This book is dedicated to our dear colleague Professor Isa Baud. It is a gift on the occasion of her retirement as Programme Leader of the Governance and Inclusive Development group at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) of the University of Amsterdam. Inspired by her work, the book intends to be (part of) her legacy. That legacy is characterized by her drive to understand life in fast-changing cities in the global South and her focus on interactions between various contexts and the lives of urban residents. She is particularly committed to poor and marginal groups in the city and to questions of inequality, exclusion, poverty and wellbeing and how urban governance can deal with them. Trained as a sociologist, she considers herself more as a human geographer, which we see reflected in her passion for spatiality. This book aims to do justice to the multi-dimensionality of her work. Isa Baud, born in 1950, studied non-western sociology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Throughout her career she has
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