This innovative volume offers new methodological foundations for global urban studies.
Proposes the reformatting of comparative practice to provoke new conceptualizations and contribute to more inclusive analytical conversations
Focuses both on revising existing theories and inventing new concepts for global urban studies, drawing on an array of theoretical and empirical resources
Provides a novel approach to urban studies, open to different urban experiences around the world
Features a wealth of rich examples of the many dimensions of global urban life
Presents a range of methodological tactics informed by postcolonial critiques of urban studies and by theoretical and philosophical understandings of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban
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'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson peels away conceptual labels that have anointed some cities as paradigmatic and left others as mere copies. She recalibrates overly used theoretical perspectives, resurrects forgotten ones long in need of a dusting off, and brings to the fore those often marginalised. Robinson's approach radically re-distributes who speaks for the urban, and which urban conditions shape our theoretical understandings. With Comparative Urbanism in our hands, we can start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any number of elsewheres.'
Jane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
'How to think the multiplicity of urban realities at the same time, across different times and rhythmic arrangements; how to move with the emergences and stand-stills, with conceptualisations that do justice to all things gathered under the name of the urban. How to imagine comparatively amongst differences that remain different, individualised outcomes, but yet exist in-common. No book has so carefully conducted a specifically urban philosophy on these matters, capable of beginning and ending anywhere.'
AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
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Höhe: 228 mm
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Dicke: 25 mm
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978-1-119-69755-8 (9781119697558)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jennifer Robinson is Professor of Human Geography, University College London, UK. She is the author of Ordinary Cities, a seminal work which developed a postcolonial reappraisal of urban studies. Her empirical research in South Africa examined the history of apartheid cities and the politics of post-apartheid city-visioning, while her comparative research has focused on urban development politics in London, Shanghai and Johannesburg, as well as on the transnational circuits shaping African urbanization.
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Indiana University, USA
