{"product_id":"comparative-urbanism-9781119697558","title":"Comparative Urbanism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eComparative Urbanism \u003c\/i\u003efully 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 \u003ci\u003eComparative Urbanism \u003c\/i\u003ein our hands, we can start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any number of elsewheres.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Jenny Robinson’s strong belief in the need to experiment with comparative methods, theories and concepts in urban studies for ‘a globally diverse urban’ has long inspired many of us. In this book, she takes this plea forward in a comprehensive journey through philosophy, anthropology and geography. Her wonderful voice in this book takes the reader by the hand through a landscape of ideas and a heartfully felt passion for comparative urbanism. Written by one of the most original geographers of our times, it provides resources to make interdisciplinary scholarship work by drawing on many theoretical angles from various corners of the field of social sciences and humanities. It is a must-read for all of us interested in that ‘impossible’ object of our studies, the urban, whether we are starting to explore this field of study or share the dearly felt need to re-imagine our central concepts in this rapidly changing world.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTalja Blokland, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface Preface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Reformatting Comparison 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Ways of Knowing the Global Urban 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUncertain Territories, ‘Strategic Essentialisms’: Regions, the Global South and beyond 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Disappearing City: Planetary Urbanisation and its Critics 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecolonial, Developmental, Emergent: Different Starting Points, or Incomparability? 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions of a Comparative Urban Imagination 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Limits of Comparative Methodologies in Urban Studies 53\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Analytical Limits to the ‘World’ of Cities: Beyond Incommensurability 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConventional Strategies for Comparison in Urban Studies 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Potential of Comparative Research 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Comparative Urbanism in the Archives: Thinking with Variety, Thinking with Connections 79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpanding the Comparative Gesture 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThinking with Variety 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStretching Comparisons: Thinking with Connections 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Thinking Cities through Elsewhere: Reformatting Comparison 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThinking with Concrete Totalities 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSingularities, Repeated Instances, Concepts 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenetic and Generative Grounds for Urban Comparisons 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: From Grounds to Tactics 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Genetic Comparisons 135\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Connections 137\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConnections as Urbanisation Processes 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConnections Producing Repeated Instances 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvery Case Matters 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Relations 161\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWider Processes 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Neoliberalisation, Comparatively 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConnected Contexts 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore Spatialities of the Urban: Topologies, Partial Connections, Submarine Relations 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Generative Comparisons 199\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Generating Concepts 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Conceptualising Subject: Institutions, Horizons, Grounds 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Life of Concepts: Ideal Types 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThinking the ‘Concrete’ 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNegotiated Universals: Concepts ‘In-common’ 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Composing Comparisons 247\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking with ‘Conjuncture’ 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptualising from Specificity 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThinking across Diversity 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Conversations 279\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShifting Grounds: Comparison as Practice 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparison as Conversations 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheoretical Reflections 292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobile Concepts, or ‘Arriving at’ Concepts 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Thinking from the Urban as Distinctive 305\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Territories 307\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThinking from Territories 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhich Territorialisations? 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssembling Territories 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Into the Territory, or, the Urban as Idea 329\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDetachment 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuturing 336\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStandstill 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeas 346\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformality, as Idea 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 362\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Starting Anywhere, Thinking with (Elsew)here 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Reformatted Urban Comparison 370\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptualisation 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Explosion of Urban Studies 383\u003cbr\u003e References 387\u003cbr\u003e Index 441\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407123521879,"sku":"9781119697558","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119697558.jpg?v=1730498260","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/comparative-urbanism-9781119697558","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}