Regional Perspectives - Theological & Analytical

 

Slums and the cities of the south
Sheridan Bartlett et al. Cities for Children: Children’s Rights, Poverty & Urban Management, Earthscan 2000
Jo Beall ed., A City for All – Valuing Difference and Working with Diversity, Zed 1997
Rod Burgess et al. eds., The Challenge of Sustainable Cities, Zed 1997
Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, verso 2006
Alan Gilbert & Josef Gugler, Cities, Poverty and Development - Urbanisation in the Third World, OUP 1992
Josef Gugler ed. The Urbanization of the Third World, OUP 1988
Mark Kramer, Dispossessed: Life In Our World's Urban Slums, Orbis 2006
Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities a billion squatters a new urban world, Routledge 2006
Robert Potter & Sally Lloyd Evans, The City in the Developing World, Longman 1998

 

Africa
Patrick Bond, Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal. Essays on South Africa’s New Urban Crisis AWP 2000
Aswin Desai, We are the poors,  Monthly Review Press 2003
Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm eds. Nigerian Cities AWP 2004; Globalization and Urbanization in Africa, AWP 2004
Paul Gifford, Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy, Hurst 2004
Francesco Perli & Yago Abeledo, The Slums: A challenge to evangelisation, Pauline Publications Africa
Jenny Robinson, Ordinary Cities: between Modernity and Development, Routledge 2005
Anthony O’Connor, The African City, Hutchinson 1983
Aylward Shorter, The Church in the African City, Geoffrey Chapman 1991
Abdou Maliq Simone For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities, Duke UP 2005; ed. Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City, Zed 2005

 

Latin America
Phillip Berryman, Religion in the Megacity. Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America, Orbis 1996
Alan Gilbert, The Latin American City, Latin American Bureau 1994
Duncan Green, The Silent Revolution. Rise of Market Economics in Latin America, Cassell 1995
Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt: Fractured Cities: Urban Violence, State Failure and Social Exclusion, zed books 2006
J.J. Thomas, Surviving in the City. The Urban Informal Sector in Latin America, Pluto 1995

Asia
K.C. Abraham, ‘Globalisation: A gospel and culture perspective’, in International Review of Mission, 1996.
John Clammer, Contemporary Urban Japan, Blackwell 1997
Jeremy Seabrook, In the Cities of the South - Scenes from a developing world, Verso 1996
Dorothy Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China, UP California 1999
Smriti Srinivas, Landscapes of Urban memory: The Scared and the Civic in India’s High Tech City, University of Minnestoa, 2001
Akira Suzuki, Do Android Crows Fly Over the Sky of an Electronic Tokyo? The Interactive Urban Landscape of Japan, AAP 2001

 

Australia
Katherine Gibson & Sophie Watson, Metropolis Now. Planning and the Urban in Contemporary Australia, Polity / Pluto 1998

North American –Theology, Reportage & Mission
Robert D Carle & Louis DeCaro, Signs of Hope in the City. Ministries of Community Renewal, Judson Press 1997
Tony Campolo, Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving our Cities WJKP 2000
Tony Carnes & Anna Kappathakis, New York Glory, NYUP 2000
Harvie M. Conn & Manuel Ortiz, Urban Ministry. The Kingdom, the City and the People of God. IVP 2001
Theodore Eastman, ‘Mission of Christ in Urban America’, in Philip Turner and Frank Sugeno, Crossroads are for Meeting (SPCK USA 1986)
Mark R Gornik, To Live in Peace. Biblical faith and the changing inner city Eerdmanns 2002
Clifford J. Green ed. Churches, Cities and Human Community - Urban Ministry 1945-85, Eerdmanns
Nile Harper, Urban Churches: Beyond Charity Towards Justice, Eerdmans 1998
Albert y. Hsu The Suburban Christian: Finding Spiritual Vitality in the Land of Plenty, IVP 2006
Eric Jacobsen, Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith, Brazo 2003
Robert Linthicum, Transforming Power: Biblical Strategies for Making a Difference in Your Community IVP (USA) 2003; Building a people of power Authentic 2005
Lowell Livezey, Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City, NYU 2000
Robert D. Lupton Renewing the City: Reflections on Community Development and Urban Renewal, IVP 2005
Robert Orsi, Gods of the City, Indiana University Press 2000
Eleanor Scott Meyers ed., Envisioning the New City - A Reader in Urban Ministry, WJKP 1992
Kathryn Tanner, Spirit in the Cities Searching for Soul in the Urban Landscape, Fortress 2004
Eldin Villafañe, Seek the Peace of the City, Eerdmanns 1995
Jim Wallis Faithworks, SPCK 2002
Mark Warren Dry Bones rattling, Princeton 2001

 

North American – Cities
Mike Davis, City of Quartz, Picador 1996; Magical Urbanism. Latinos Reinvent the American City Verso 1999
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, & Jeff Speck Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, North Point 2001
Eben Fodor, Better not Bigger, NSP 1999
Roberta Brandes Gratz, Norman Mintz, Cities Back from the Edge : New Life for Downtown, John Wiley 1998
Paul S. Grogan, Tony Proscio, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Revival, Westview 2000
Jeff Ferrell, Tearing Down the Streets. Adventures in Urban Anarchy, Palgrave 2001
Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place. MIT Press 1996
Rem Koolhas et al Guide to Shopping. Taschen 2001
John Norquist The Wealth of Cities. Revitalising the Centres of American Life, Addison Wesley 1998
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone. The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster 2000
David Ranney Global Decisions, Local Collisions, Temple 2003
Dimitrious Roussopoulos, Public Place: Citizen Participation in Neighbourhood and Cities, Black Rose 2000
Victor Valle & Rodlfo Torres, Latino Metropolis, University of Minnesota 2000

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