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The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus
on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces
the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook
engages the complex ways in which cities of the global south and
the global north are rapidly shifting, the imperative for multiple
genealogies of knowledge production, as well as a diversity of
empirical entry points to understand contemporary urban dynamics.
The Handbook works towards a geographical realignment in urban
studies, bringing into conversation a wide array of cities across
the global south - the 'ordinary', 'mega', 'global' and
'peripheral'. With interdisciplinary contributions from a range of
leading international experts, it profiles an emergent and
geographically diverse body of work. The contributions draw on
conflicting and divergent debates to open up discussion on the
meaning of the city in, or of, the global south; arguments that are
fluid and increasingly contested geographically and conceptually.
It reflects on critical urbanism, the macro- and micro-scale forces
that shape cities, including ideological, demographic and
technological shifts, and rapidly changing global and regional
economic dynamics. Working with southern reference points, the
chapters present themes in urban politics, identity and environment
in ways that (re)frame our thinking about cities. The Handbook
engages the twenty-first-century city through a 'southern urban'
lens to stimulate scholarly, professional and activist engagements
with the city.
The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus
on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces
the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook
engages the complex ways in which cities of the global south and
the global north are rapidly shifting, the imperative for multiple
genealogies of knowledge production, as well as a diversity of
empirical entry points to understand contemporary urban dynamics.
The Handbook works towards a geographical realignment in urban
studies, bringing into conversation a wide array of cities across
the global south - the 'ordinary', 'mega', 'global' and
'peripheral'. With interdisciplinary contributions from a range of
leading international experts, it profiles an emergent and
geographically diverse body of work. The contributions draw on
conflicting and divergent debates to open up discussion on the
meaning of the city in, or of, the global south; arguments that are
fluid and increasingly contested geographically and conceptually.
It reflects on critical urbanism, the macro- and micro-scale forces
that shape cities, including ideological, demographic and
technological shifts, and constantly changing global and regional
economic dynamics. Working with southern reference points, the
chapters present themes in urban politics, identity and environment
in ways that (re)frame our thinking about cities. The Handbook
engages the twenty-first-century city through a 'southern urban'
lens to stimulate scholarly, professional and activist engagements
with the city.
Understanding and managing urban change in our global era demands a
high degree of specialised and interdisciplinary knowledge. At the
same time, city planners, architects, researchers, policymakers,
and activists are deeply immersed in the chaotic and often
contradictory urban realities that they are asked to address. What
is Critical Urbanism? offers an innovative toolkit for engaging
these present realities across disciplinary specialisations and
geographic purviews. Central to the book is the research and
pedagogy of the Critical Urbanisms MA program at the University of
Basel, established in collaboration with the African Centre for
Cities at the University of Cape Town. The program's renowned and
emerging urbanists demonstrate the power of working with care and
reciprocity across different contexts and institutions, driven by
engagement with varied communities of practice. They show how
alternative urban futures can be imagined by addressing the
historical injustices and global entanglements that shape the urban
present. The book is tailored to students, graduates and teachers
of urban studies and related disciplines including architecture,
urban design, human geography, architectural history, and urban
anthropology.
High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in
a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town,
South Africa.An argument for collaborative urbanism, this book
reflects on what was at stake in the partnership and its creative,
and at times, conflictive, evolution. High Stakes, High Hopes
explores what changed in learning when teaching and assessment
occurred inuniversity classrooms, township streets, and ordinary
people’s households.Oldfield explores how research and assessment
were reshaped when framed in neighbourhood questions and
commitments, and what was reoriented in urban theorizing when
community activism and township struggles were recognized as sites
of valid knowledge-making. Oldfield traces the multiple personal
and political relationships at play, exploring the shifting
patterns of power in this productive, yet always negotiated,
collaboration. This innovative methodologyreveals the ways in which
activists, residents, students, and the author experienced and
reworked the differences between them. High Stakes, High
Hopesshares forms of practice, grounded in teaching, to train a
next generation of urbanists to engage the city embedded in
multiple publics and politics across the city. The book builds upon
an archive of alternative kinds of urban knowledges, experiments
which work to inspire more varied forms of urban theorizing.
High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in
a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town,
South Africa.An argument for collaborative urbanism, this book
reflects on what was at stake in the partnership and its creative,
and at times, conflictive, evolution. High Stakes, High Hopes
explores what changed in learning when teaching and assessment
occurred inuniversity classrooms, township streets, and ordinary
people’s households.Oldfield explores how research and assessment
were reshaped when framed in neighbourhood questions and
commitments, and what was reoriented in urban theorizing when
community activism and township struggles were recognized as sites
of valid knowledge-making. Oldfield traces the multiple personal
and political relationships at play, exploring the shifting
patterns of power in this productive, yet always negotiated,
collaboration. This innovative methodologyreveals the ways in which
activists, residents, students, and the author experienced and
reworked the differences between them. High Stakes, High
Hopesshares forms of practice, grounded in teaching, to train a
next generation of urbanists to engage the city embedded in
multiple publics and politics across the city. The book builds upon
an archive of alternative kinds of urban knowledges, experiments
which work to inspire more varied forms of urban theorizing.
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