Comparative Urbanism 1st Edition Jennifer Robinson

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119697514
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781119697510
• Author: Jennifer Robinson

COMPARATIVE URBANISM

‘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.’

Table of 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 30

10 Territories

11 Into the Territory, or, the Urban as Idea

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