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The City as Action : Retheorizing Urban Studies, Hardback Book

The City as Action : Retheorizing Urban Studies Hardback

Part of the Global Urban Studies series

Hardback

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In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city.

It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places. This book presents an innovative theoretical contribution to the field of urban studies, bridging the gap between western centric scholarship and perspectives from the global South.

It offers conceptually rich insights, combining notions of cities as organisms, and references to postcolonial urban studies, with insights around aspirations, capabilities, agency, and social identity.

It develops concepts, like the Proximity Principle, that help explain the experience of a city.

This conceptualization of the city as a process should interest all who are sensitive to cities, whether they study them in academia or simply develop close associations with specific urban places.

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