A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Encountering, describing and transforming urbanism
In this paper, I present some concluding reflections on the ‘Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis’ debate that has taken place in the last few issues of City. Prompted by the eight insightful commentaries in the debate, I consider just three sets of contributions and limitations that assemblage thinking brings to making sense of and developing alternatives to contemporary urbanism: on encountering urban life, on the limits of description and on the possibilities for a radical urban commons. I argue that assemblage thinking provides a set of useful perspectives for conceptualising and intervening in urbanism, and that its potential can only be realised in conjunction with different urban critical, activist and marginalised knowledges.
Encountering, describing and transforming urbanism
In this paper, I present some concluding reflections on the ‘Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis’ debate that has taken place in the last few issues of City. Prompted by the eight insightful commentaries in the debate, I consider just three sets of contributions and limitations that assemblage thinking brings to making sense of and developing alternatives to contemporary urbanism: on encountering urban life, on the limits of description and on the possibilities for a radical urban commons. I argue that assemblage thinking provides a set of useful perspectives for conceptualising and intervening in urbanism, and that its potential can only be realised in conjunction with different urban critical, activist and marginalised knowledges.
Encountering, describing and transforming urbanism
McFarlane, Colin (author)
City ; 15 ; 731-739
2011-12-01
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Encountering, describing and transforming urbanism
| Online Contents | 2011
Re-urbanism : transforming capitals
| UB Braunschweig | 2007
Re-urbanism : transforming capitals
| TIBKAT | 2007