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Comparative urbanismtactics for global urban studies /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Comparative urbanismJennifer Robinson.
Reminder of title:	tactics for global urban studies /
Author:	Robinson, Jennifer,
Published:	Hoboken, NJ :John Wiley & Sons,2022.
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Cities and townsStudy and teaching.
Online resource:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119697589
ISBN:	9781119697589$q(electronic bk.)

Comparative urbanismtactics for global urban studies /
Robinson, Jennifer,1963-

Comparative urbanismtactics for global urban studies /[electronic resource] :Jennifer Robinson. - 1st ed. - Hoboken, NJ :John Wiley & Sons,2022. - 1 online resource. - IJURR studies in urban and social change book series. - IJURR studies in urban and social change book series..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ways of knowing the global urban -- The limits of comparative methodologies in urban studies -- Comparative urbanism in the archives : thinking with variety, thinking with connection -- Thinking cities through elsewhere : reformatting comparison -- Connections -- Relations -- Generating concepts -- Composing -- Conversations -- Territories -- Into the territory, or, the urban as idea -- Conclusion. Starting anywhere, thinking with elsewhere.

"Urban studies has gone global - in the range of cities it considers, the scope of its theoretical ambition, and the breadth of practical concerns which now frame urban research. New topics, new subjects of theorisation and new centres of analytical innovation shape the field. The last decade has seen a significant transformation in the terms of the analysis of urbanisation and of the territories thought of as urban across the world. Many more places and processes are being brought into analytical conversation. Nonetheless, there is a keen awareness of the challenges of constituting a global field of urban studies. Shifts in the dynamic sites of rapid global urbanisation to Asia and Africa, along with the great diversity of forms of urban settlement, and the increasingly world-wide impacts of urbanisation processes, have led many urbanists to propose a renewal, if not a fundamental transformation, in urban theory. Many acknowledge this as a moment to confront head on the impossible object of the city, whose boundaries are perhaps even more indistinct than ever. The traditional object of urban studies is arguably disappearing in the face of sprawling urban settlements and "planetary" urbanisation processes. Cities, centres and suburbs become useless residual concepts, which must be used with circumspection and care. The field is in search of new vocabularies to engage with the extraordinary explosion and variety of urban forms - not just sprawling or extended, regional or mega, scholars reach for terms such as galactic and planetary to invoke the physical expansion and world-wide impact of urbanisation. There is much to think about here, and this book will contribute to how we can re-build theorisations in engagement with these trends. In this light, a series of methodological and epistemological dilemmas face all urbanists and require creative and new responses. How can concepts be reviewed, renovated, overthrown or invented across diverse urban outcomes? How can urban theory work effectively with different cases, thinking with the diversity of the urban world? How can the complexity of the urban be addressed with concepts which are necessarily always reductionist? Concepts are inevitably confined by those who articulate them to always begin somewhere, to be spoken always in some particular voice - and yet concepts must grapple with the inexhaustibility of social and material worlds. And what happens when concepts run aground, unable to speak to distinctive urban worlds?"--

ISBN: 9781119697589$q(electronic bk.)

LCCN: 2021060403Subjects--Topical Terms:

620726
Cities and towns
--Study and teaching.

LC Class. No.: HT109

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76071

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