Politics of Urban Knowledge

Part 1: WAYS OF URBAN KNOWING

2. The emergence of cartographic reasoning in a long-term perspective: Urban knowledge, craft corporations and body politics

Jasna Sersic & Bert De Munck

3. The epistemological fields of urban intervention: Urban reform, surveys and historic centres, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

Pieter Uyttenhove & Wouter Van Acker

4. From the 'scientized' to the 'sociocratic' city: The politics of knowledge and norm change in post-war urban planning in the Netherlands

Tim Verlaan & Stefan Couperus

Part 2: TRAJECTORIES OF URBAN KNOWING

5. Urban populations and urban problems in Quetelet's population statistics of the mid-nineteenth century

Kaat Louckx

6. Knowledge appropriation in Belo Horizonte: Intertwining the urban, the suburban and the rural

Patricia Capanema Alvares Fernandes & Viviana D'Auria

7. Decoding zoning: Categorisation and commonality in land-use planning knowledge

Julio Paulos & Marko Marskamp

8. Between straight lines and winding alleys: Streets as boundary objects in the transnational modernization of urban planning in Iran

Pouya Sepehr & Erik Aarden

9. Counting and caring for urban trees: Street tree surveys and citizen protest in twentieth-century West Berlin

Sonja Duempelmann

10. Knowledge-making and the quest for a sustainable city: Promoting community food growing in London

Jens Lachmund

11. Smart cities, knowledge generation and the enduring pursuit of urban innovation

Andrew Karvonen