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Productive tensions? The “city” across geographies of planetary urbanization and the urban age
A shift away from the city as the default unit of analysis in urban studies is one of the widely agreed-upon advances brought about by the planetary urbanization thesis. Yet academic critique of methodological cityism has gained traction during a period when the city is not only globally prominent through the “urban age” discourse but has also been consolidated as a key scale of policy action in multilateral agendas. Rather than focusing on a new theory-policy disjuncture, this intervention identifies potentially productive tensions between aspects of the planetary urbanization and urban age theses. We argue that: (1) inclusion of the experiences of Southern cities in the formulation of multilateral urban agendas are openings to consideration of urban processes that extend well beyond the city; (2) the city as an established locus of ground-level political action provides a window onto the role of human dynamics in extended geographies of urbanization.
Productive tensions? The “city” across geographies of planetary urbanization and the urban age
A shift away from the city as the default unit of analysis in urban studies is one of the widely agreed-upon advances brought about by the planetary urbanization thesis. Yet academic critique of methodological cityism has gained traction during a period when the city is not only globally prominent through the “urban age” discourse but has also been consolidated as a key scale of policy action in multilateral agendas. Rather than focusing on a new theory-policy disjuncture, this intervention identifies potentially productive tensions between aspects of the planetary urbanization and urban age theses. We argue that: (1) inclusion of the experiences of Southern cities in the formulation of multilateral urban agendas are openings to consideration of urban processes that extend well beyond the city; (2) the city as an established locus of ground-level political action provides a window onto the role of human dynamics in extended geographies of urbanization.
Productive tensions? The “city” across geographies of planetary urbanization and the urban age
Martinez, Ricardo (author) / Bunnell, Tim (author) / Acuto, Michele (author)
2021-08-09
Martinez , R , Bunnell , T & Acuto , M 2021 , ' Productive tensions? The “city” across geographies of planetary urbanization and the urban age ' , Urban Geography , vol. 42 , no. 7 , pp. 1011-1022 . https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1835128
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