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Eugene Mccann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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governing Urbanism Urban governance Studies 1 0 2 0 and beyond
Urban Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Eugene MccannAbstract:Governance has been a key concept in Urban Studies since the late 1980s. This paper reflects on its use and development over the past 25 years and identifies contemporary innovations and concerns that will likely define the future of Urban governance Studies. The paper argues that to fully understand the impacts of governance approaches on our understanding of cities, Urban regions and global Urbanism, we must address how Urbanism, rather than Urbanisation, is governed. An attention to Urbanism highlights a wider range of scholarly work on how the mutually constitutive relationships between the development of built environments and the identities, practices, struggles and opportunities of everyday social life are governed. In introducing 15 contributions from the archives of Urban Studies, the paper employs a heuristic framing – Urban governance Studies (UGS) 1.0, 2.0, and beyond – to show that, while governance as a contemporary critical concept gained prominence through the work of Marxian political eco...
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best places interUrban competition quality of life and popular media discourse
Urban Studies, 2004Co-Authors: Eugene MccannAbstract:This paper explores relationships between the politics of Urban competitiveness and popular media discourse about the 'good life' and 'good places'. Specifically, it focuses on the influence of popular 'best places to live' rankings on Urban policy in three US cities. It addresses two issues: how and why similar policies are transferred from place to place; and, how 'extra-economic' factors are mobilised in formulating local economic development policy. It argues that the media's role in these processes is understudied and that its normative discourse is powerful and political. This argument is influenced by and illustrative of a recent attempt to locate the study of discursive power much more centrally in political economy approaches to Urban Studies.
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space scale governance and representation contemporary geographical perspectives on Urban politics and policy
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2003Co-Authors: Deborah G Martin, Eugene Mccann, Mark PurcellAbstract:Urban Studies has long been an interdisciplinary field, drawing from, among other disciplines, anthropology, geography, history, planning, political science, and sociology. Geographers in Urban stu...
Anique Hommels - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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studying obduracy in the city toward a productive fusion between technology Studies and Urban Studies
Science Technology & Human Values, 2005Co-Authors: Anique HommelsAbstract:This article draws the city into the limelight of social Studies of technology. Considering that cities consist of a wide range of technologies, it is remarkable that cities as an object of research have so far have been relatively neglected in the field of technology Studies. This article focuses on the role of obduracy in Urban sociotechnical change, an issue that, it is argued, has considerable importance for both students of the cities and the daily practice of town planners and architects, and, at the same time, forms an important theoretical debate in science, technology, and society (STS) Studies. The article provides an overview of theoretical conceptions of obduracy in both technology Studies and Urban Studies and proposes a heuristic model for the analysis of this phenomenon. In this way, this article aims to contribute to the establishment of a common interdisciplinary playground for these disciplines.
Christine Hentschel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds a method for critical Urban Studies introduction
City, 2015Co-Authors: Hillary Angelo, Christine HentschelAbstract:This collection of papers offers a critical look at the social work that infrastructure does. We argue that small-scale interactions with infrastructure are, literally, foundations of larger scale ...
Yaffa Truelove - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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disambiguating the southern Urban critique propositions pathways and possibilities for a more global Urban Studies
Urban Studies, 2020Co-Authors: Mary Lawhon, Yaffa TrueloveAbstract:Scholarship engaging with (northern) Urban theory from the south has troubled the core of Urban Studies. At this critical juncture, we argue that it is important to clarify core propositions and ca...
Jennifer Robinson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Thinking cities through elsewhere Comparative tactics for a more global Urban Studies
Progress in Human Geography, 2015Co-Authors: Jennifer RobinsonAbstract:Inspired by postcolonial critiques, Urban Studies today is characterized by conceptual and methodological experimentation in pursuit of a more global approach to understanding cities. The challenge is to develop methods and theoretical practices which allow conceptual innovation to emerge from any Urban situation or Urbanization process, sustaining wider conversations while insisting that concepts are open to revision. This maps well on to the core methodological problematic of comparison. Mindful of the strong limits to comparison presented by conventional quasi-scientific methods, this paper sets out the basis for a reformatted comparative method. A new grounding for comparison is proposed, specific to the field of the Urban, and a new typology of tactics for undertaking Urban comparative research is suggested. The paper weaves together classic approaches and more recent innovations in comparison from within Urban Studies with a wider philosophical analysis of the issues at stake in reframing the architecture of comparison. The paper stands as an invitation to practise global Urban Studies differently – comparatively – but also to practise comparison differently, in a way that opens Urban Studies to a more global repertoire of potential insights. The paper develops this invitation and methodological quest through Marxist political-economy; through actually-existing vernacular comparative practices of Urban Studies; and through insights gleaned from Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical project. The last section of the paper explains how this new vocabulary of comparative method can be put to work through a review of some recent experiments in the field of global Urban Studies.
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ordinary cities between modernity and development
2006Co-Authors: Jennifer RobinsonAbstract:With the Urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid Urbanization of poverty, Urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for Urban development. It makes the argument that all cities are best understood as ‘ordinary’, and crosses the longstanding divide in Urban scholarship and Urban policy between Western and other cities (especially those labelled ‘Third World’). It considers the two framing axes of Urban modernity and development, and argues that if cities are to be imagined in equitable and creative ways, Urban theory must overcome these axes with their Western bias, and that resources must become at least as cosmopolitan as cities themselves. Tracking paths across previously separate literatures and debates, this innovative book, a postcolonial critique of Urban Studies, traces the outlines of a cosmopolitan approach to cities, drawing on evidence from Rio, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Kuala Lumpur. Key Urban scholars and debates, from Simmel, Benjamin and the Chicago School to Global and World Cities theories are explored, together with anthropological and developmentalist accounts of poorer cities. Offering an alternative approach, Ordinary Cities skilfully brings together theories of Urban development for students and researchers of Urban Studies, geography and development.
