Ordinary Cities - Between Modernity and Development

Zusatztext "All cities are ordinary, argues Robinson, and categorizing them as Western, Third World, developed, developing, world, or global ascribes prominence to certain cities and to certain features of cities. Instead, she starts from the fact that all cities are dynamic and diverse, if conflicted, arenas for social and economic life and anchors on that notion a new post-colonial framework for thinking about cities that avoids the underlying assumption of urban scholarship that Western cities are exemplary and Third World cities more or less poor imitations." -- Reference & Research Book News Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Robinson is Professor of Urban Geography at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Klappentext This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for thinking about urban development and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy, between Western and other cities. Zusammenfassung This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for thinking about urban development and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy, between Western and other cities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction  1. Dislocating Modernity: Primitivism in Urban Theory  2. On (Not) Being Blasé: In the Tracks of Comparative Urbanism  3. Ways of Being Modern: Towards a Cosmopolitan Urban Studies  4. Re-Inscribing Hierarchies: Global and World Cities  5. Developing Ordinary Cities: Bringing the City Back in  6. Mobilising Diverse Economies.  Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Robinson, Robinson Jennifer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2005
• EAN: 9780415304870
• ISBN: 978-0-415-30487-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Questioning Cities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, The environment, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Development Studies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building