Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: towards contested urban geopolitics on a global scale -- Part I Comparative urban geopolitics -- Part introduction -- 1 Post-war reconstruction in contested cities: comparing urban outcomes in Sarajevo and Beirut -- 2 Negotiating cities: Nairobi and Cape Town -- 3 Ordinary urban geopolitics: contrasting Jerusalem and Stockholm -- Part II Urban geopolitics: South and South East Asia -- Part introduction -- 4 The tale of ethno-political and spatial claims in a contested city: the Muhajir community in Karachi -- 5 The practice of 'marketplace coordination' in Jakarta (1977-98) -- 6 The politics of doing nothing: a rethinking of the culture of poverty in Khulna c. 1882-1990 -- Part III Urban geopolitics: Middle East and North Africa -- Part introduction -- 7 The camp vs the campus: the geopolitics of urban thresholds in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus -- 8 Urban planning, religious voices and ethnicity in the contested city of Acre: the Lababidi mosque explored -- 9 Exploring the roots of contested public spaces of Cairo: theorizing structural shifts and increased complexity -- Part IV Urban geopolitics: Latin America -- Part introduction -- 10 Unpacking narratives of social conflict and inclusion: anti-gentrification neighbourhood organization in Santiago, Chile -- 11 The Medellín's shifting geopolitics of informality: the Encircled Garden as a dispositive of civil disenfranchisement? -- 12 Assessing critical urban geopolitics in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil -- Part V Comparative discussion -- Part introduction -- 13 Geopolitics, cosmopolitanism and planning: contested cities in a global context -- Afterword: lineages of urban geopolitics -- Index