{"product_id":"learning-the-city-9781405192828","title":"Learning the City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics\u003c\/i\u003e critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntegrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai''s informal settlements with debates on urban policy, political economy, and development\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders how knowledge and learning are conceived and created in cities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about urbanism between North and South\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Learning the City makes an exhaustive case for framing our studies of knowledge and power through the optic of the learning assemblage. Its revelatory power is arguably profound for McFarlane, it promises nothing short of understanding the power to forge a different kind of city.”  (\u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 September 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This book is a significant step in bringing learning to the core of urban study… This volume’s detailed fieldwork effectively supports its desire to see learning occupy a central place in the production of more socially just urbanisms.” (\u003ci\u003eArea\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 May 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Learning the Cityis a critical academic contribution useful for scholars of the field.  found it particularly useful for my research on policy circulation of Bus Rapid Transit concepts through the South African city . . . While Learning the Cityis probably too sophisticated for younger readers, it is sure to become indispensable for academics of the discipline.” (\u003ci\u003eGeography Helvitica\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 December  \u003ci\u003e2012)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Through \u003ci\u003eLearning the City\u003c\/i\u003e McFarlane has made a major contribution to our understandings of the urban. In its commitment to the diverse and lively practices through which the city is learned and known, in its engagement with the diverse forms of agency and political practices through which agency is assembled and re-assembled the book enlivens understandings of spatial politics. It is also a text that is animated by a powerful sense of hope that cities might come to bere-assembled in different ways that are more equitable and more open to different agentic forces and contributions.\" (\u003ci\u003eSociety and Space\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 November 2012)  \u003cp\u003e\"There will certainly be a range of contributors that join in on the exciting task of making these links. In \u003ci\u003eLearning the City\u003c\/i\u003e, McFarlane successfully manages to open the black box of urban learning in widening the perspective to acknowledge diverse urban learning practices, which may even bear a transformative potential in certain contexts.\" (\u003ci\u003eInternational Planning Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 23 October 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Urbanism, McFarlane believes, needs a theory of learning; throughout his book he builds a very sophisticated one…[he] brings us closer to the material stuff of urban life and politics…a kind of urbanism in motion, whereby what we come to term ‘knowledge’, ‘infrastructure’ and ‘resources’ are never simply ‘there’, but must be translated, distributed, coordinated, perceived and inhabited”. (\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research\u003c\/i\u003e, Volume 38.1, January 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Editors' Preface ix  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Learning Assemblages 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslation: Distribution, Practice and Comparison 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoordinating Learning 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDwelling and Perception 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssemblage Space 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Assembling the Everyday: Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning 32\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncremental Urbanism 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning the Unknown City: Street Children in Mumbai 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning, Rhythm, Space 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTactical Learning 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Learning Social Movements: Tactics, Urbanism and Politics 62\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowing Social Movements 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Slumming 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Housing Assemblage: Materializing Learning 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning and Representation: Counting the Poor 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEntrepreneurial Learning 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Urban Learning Forums 92\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUncertain Forums 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDialogic Urban Forums 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslocalism and Translation 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Travelling Policies, Ideological Assemblages 115\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslating Policy 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparative Learning: Translation and Colonial Urbanism 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeology and Postwar Urban Planning 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeoliberal Urban Learning Assemblages 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeology and Explanation: Beyond Diffusionist Story-Making 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 A Critical Geography of Urban Learning 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Actual and the Possible 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgency and Critical Learning 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssemblage and the Critical Learning Imaginary 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostcolonial Urban Learning? 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion 174\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 205\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529339085143,"sku":"9781405192828","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405192828.jpg?v=1731875235","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/learning-the-city-9781405192828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}