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The City as Action - Retheorizing Urban Studies (Hardcover)
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The City as Action - Retheorizing Urban Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Global Urban Studies
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In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this
book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It
leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban
theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it
shares with other urban places. This book presents an innovative
theoretical contribution to the field of urban studies, bridging
the gap between western centric scholarship and perspectives from
the global South. It offers conceptually rich insights, combining
notions of cities as organisms, and references to postcolonial
urban studies, with insights around aspirations, capabilities,
agency, and social identity. It develops concepts, like the
Proximity Principle, that help explain the experience of a city.
This conceptualization of the city as a process should interest all
who are sensitive to cities, whether they study them in academia or
simply develop close associations with specific urban places.
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