Comparative urbanism : tactics for global urban studies / Jennifer Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Jennifer, 1963- author.

Series:

Studies in urban and social change.

IJURR studies in urban and social change book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Study and teaching.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 449 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

The rapid pace and changing nature of twenty-first century urbanisation as well as the diversity of global urban experiences calls for new theories and new methodologies in urban studies. In Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Jennifer Robinson proposes grounds for reformatting comparative urban practice and offers a wide range of tactics for researching global urban experiences. The focus is on inventing new concepts as well as revising existing approaches. Inspired by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of urban studies she advocates for an experimental comparative urbanism, open to learning from different urban experiences and to expanding conversations amongst urban scholars across the globe. The book features a wealth of examples of comparative urban research, concerned with many dimensions of urban life. A range of theoretical and philosophical approaches ground an understanding of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban. Advanced students, urbanists and scholars will be prompted to compose comparisons which trace the interconnected and relational character of the urban, and to think with the variety of urban experiences and urbanisation processes across the globe, to produce the new insights the twenty-first century urban world demands.

Contents:

Part I Reformatting comparison

1. Ways of knowing the global urban

2. The limits of comparative methodologies in urban studies

3. Comparative urbanism in the archives : thinking with variety, thinking with connections

4. Thinking cities through elsewhere : reformatting comparison

Part II Genetic comparisons

5. Connections

6. Relations

Part III Generative comparisons

7. Generating concepts

8. Composing comparisons

9. Conversations

Part IV Thinking from the urban as distinctive

10. Territories

11. Into the territory, or, the urban as idea

Conclusion. Starting anywhere, thinking with (elsew)here

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Robinson, Jennifer Comparative Urbanism

ISBN:

9781119697589 (e-book)

9781119697510 (hbk.)

9781119697558 (pbk.)