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.
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