CITIES RETHOUGHT, a new urban disposition

183pp., illus., paperback, Polity, Cambridge & Hoboken, 2025

ISBN: 9781509565610

The authors suggest that we need to remake the way we see and know cities in order to rethink how we act and intervene within them.

"Four globally leading scholars at the top of their fields harness vast swathes of theory and practical wisdom to provide an insightful, well-reasoned, reflective, inspiring, accessible, and empirically grounded tour de force which will shape urban knowledge production, policy, and practice for years to come – a rare and welcome thing indeed. This book punches way beyond urban studies and establishes itself as a must-read for everyone interested in how to live in a fractured and fragile urban world." Beth Perry, Director of the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield

"The endless journey for an equitable city demands a continuous process of learning, adaptation, and innovation, to imagine alternative paths to the usual responses. In this text, the authors build an analytical and practical roadmap that will allow us to draw a journey with greater clarity and certainty to improve our lives in cities." Alejandro Echeverri, TEC Monterrey Institute of Technology

Gautam Bhan is Associate Dean of the School of Human Development at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Michael Keith is Director of PEAK Urban and the Centre on Migration Policy and Society at the University of Oxford.
Susan Parnell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town.
Edgar Pieterse is Professor and Founding Director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.