Comparative Urbanism Tactics for Global Urban Studies 1st Edition by Jennifer Robinson ISBN 1119697557 978-1119697558

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ISBN 10: 1119697557 
ISBN 13:  978-1119697558
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.’

AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield

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.

Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies 1st Table of contents:

Part I Reformatting Comparison

1 Ways of Knowing the Global Urban

Uncertain Territories, ‘Strategic Essentialisms’: Regions, the Global South and beyond

The Disappearing City: Planetary Urbanisation and its Critics

Decolonial, Developmental, Emergent: Different Starting Points, or Incomparability?

Dimensions of a Comparative Urban Imagination

Conclusion

2 The Limits of Comparative Methodologies in Urban Studies

Some Analytical Limits to the ‘World’ of Cities: Beyond Incommensurability

Conventional Strategies for Comparison in Urban Studies

The Potential of Comparative Research

Conclusion

3 Comparative Urbanism in the Archives: Thinking with Variety, Thinking with Connections

Expanding the Comparative Gesture

Thinking with Variety

Stretching Comparisons: Thinking with Connections

Conclusion

4 Thinking Cities through Elsewhere: Reformatting Comparison

Thinking with Concrete Totalities

Singularities, Repeated Instances, Concepts

Genetic and Generative Grounds for Urban Comparisons

Conclusion: From Grounds to Tactics

Part II Genetic Comparisons

5 Connections

Connections as Urbanisation Processes

Connections Producing Repeated Instances

Every Case Matters

Conclusion

6 Relations

Wider Processes

Urban Neoliberalisation, Comparatively

Connected Contexts

More Spatialities of the Urban: Topologies, Partial Connections, Submarine Relations

Conclusion

Part III Generative Comparisons

7 Generating Concepts

The Conceptualising Subject: Institutions, Horizons, Grounds

A Life of Concepts: Ideal Types

Thinking the ‘Concrete’

Negotiated Universals: Concepts ‘In-common’

Conclusion

8 Composing Comparisons

Working with ‘Conjuncture’

Conceptualising from Specificity

Thinking across Diversity

Conclusion

9 Conversations

Shifting Grounds: Comparison as Practice

Comparison as Conversations

Theoretical Reflections

Mobile Concepts, or ‘Arriving at’ Concepts

Conclusion

Part IV Thinking from the Urban as Distinctive

10 Territories

Thinking from Territories

Which Territorialisations?

Assembling Territories

Conclusion

11 Into the Territory, or, the Urban as Idea

Detachment

Suturing

Standstill

Ideas

Informality, as Idea

Conclusion

Conclusion: Starting Anywhere, Thinking with (Elsew)here

A Reformatted Urban Comparison

Conceptualisation

An Explosion of Urban Studies

References

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