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This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.
List of contents
Part 1: WAYS OF URBAN KNOWING2. The emergence of cartographic reasoning in a long-term perspective: Urban knowledge, craft corporations and body politics
Jasna Serši¿ & Bert De Munck3. The epistemological fields of urban intervention: Urban reform, surveys and historic centres, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Pieter Uyttenhove & Wouter Van Acker4. From the 'scientized' to the 'sociocratic' city: The politics of knowledge and norm change in post-war urban planning in the Netherlands
Tim Verlaan & Stefan Couperus Part 2: TRAJECTORIES OF URBAN KNOWING
5. Urban populations and urban problems in Quetelet's population statistics of the mid-nineteenth century
Kaat Louckx6. Knowledge appropriation in Belo Horizonte: Intertwining the urban, the suburban and the rural
Patricia Capanema Alvares Fernandes & Viviana D'Auria7. Decoding zoning: Categorisation and commonality in land-use planning knowledge
Julio Paulos & Marko Marskamp8. Between straight lines and winding alleys: Streets as boundary objects in the transnational modernization of urban planning in Iran
Pouya Sepehr & Erik Aarden9.
Counting and caring for urban trees: Street tree surveys and citizen protest in twentieth-century West Berlin
Sonja Dümpelmann10. Knowledge-making and the quest for a sustainable city: Promoting community food growing in London
Jens Lachmund11. Smart cities, knowledge generation and the enduring pursuit of urban innovation
Andrew Karvonen
About the author
Bert De Munck is full professor at the History Department at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, teaching 'Early Modern History', 'Theory of Historical Knowledge', and 'History of Science and Society'. He is the Director of the interdisciplinary Urban Studies Institute and the international Scientific Research Community (WOG) 'Urban Agency: The Historical Fabrication of the City as an Object of Study'.
Jens Lachmund is a sociologist and senior lecturer in science and technology studies at Maastricht University, Netherlands. He has conducted research on the historical sociology of medicine, and on the politics of (urban) environmental knowledge. His publications include
Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature (Boston, 2013).
Summary
This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.
