Critical Urban Theory versus Critical Urban Studies: A Review Debate

Marcuse, Peter; Imbroscio, David; Parker, Simon; Davies, Jonathan S.; Magnusson, Warren

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12151

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“…Even though they differ in their epistemological and methodological commitments, critical urbanists, generally, are concerned with the (re)production of social injustices within and among cities driven by capital's urbanised, neoliberalised, globalised, and financialised forms, and complementary political and ideological instrumentalities (Brenner ; Davies and Imbroscio ; Marcuse et al . ). Drawing in part on a call by Robinson () for the depiction of urban processes to be more cosmopolitan, significant work on culture, gender, and post‐colonial cities has addressed head on the power relations and methodological slippages which can inhere in comparative research.…”

Section: Conventional Visualisations Of Two Critical Geographic Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

Walker

Boamah

2017

Geography and Environment

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The main purpose of this paper is to develop a new method for visualizing knowledge production which is attentive to the multiple elements embedded in research processes. In particular, we seek to problematise the representation of scholarship indicators by depicting theoretical contributions and field sites along a spectrum, rather than as discrete points, recursively and relationally constituted. The primary aim of our visualisations is to capture text and context, and codified and tacit knowledge. First, we offer a conventional representation of the location of selected dominant critical theories in Geography, arguing that current methods reinforce 'lopsided' geographies of knowledge production. Normative practices of data visualisation and representation captured in our two examples privilege certain elements centred on authorship and tend to silence the contexts informing research. Second, we borrow the term and method of chromatography, a tool used in the natural sciences but here conceived in its more literal sense of 'writing the separations'. Our 'chromatographical' representations attempt to unbundle components currently absorbed by formal indicators of knowledge production. Such counter mappings attempt to convey the relational aspect of research between countries imbricated in the propagation of exemplary critical geographic theories. We conclude with a discussion of the implications that the disaggregation of value has for scholars and their research.

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Section: Conventional Visualisations Of Two Critical Geographic Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

Walker

Boamah

2017

Geography and Environment

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“…The urban sector continues to expand in highly industrialized parts of the world with the diversification of land 3.3 Urban Theories and Planning: Links and Practices use, new infrastructures and the regional reconfiguration of rural-urban interfaces and modes of investment and governance. Marcuse et al (2014) highlight the lack of reflection at the micro, meso and macro urban scales and the power struggles these urban dynamics generate. More recently and more pertinent to our discussion here is the fact that urbanization follows on the coattails of the globalization of economic exchanges and rural-urban demographic shifts.…”

Section: Urban Theories and Planning: Links And Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These changes result in increasingly fragmented urban territories, gentrification (depending on neighborhoods' amenities) and socio-economic segmentation of functions and uses of the city (Marcuse 2006). In short, slums on one side, gated communities on the other, and a city center in collapse.…”

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confidence: 99%

Urban Planning Against Poverty

Bolay

2020

Future City

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Future City DescriptionAs of 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world's population now live in cities. And with concerns about issues such as climate change, energy supply and environmental health receiving increasing political attention, interest in the sustainable development of our future cities has grown dramatically.Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture, evidence-based design and sustainable planning, only a fraction of the current literature successfully integrates the necessary theory and practice from across the full range of relevant disciplines.Springer's Future City series combines expertise from designers, and from natural and social scientists, to discuss the wide range of issues facing the architects, planners, developers and inhabitants of the world's future cities. Its aim is to encourage the integration of ecological theory into the aesthetic, social and practical realities of contemporary urban development.More information about this series at

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“…Neil Brenner (2009) explores the many profound changes that have taken place in our contemporary societies in recent decades. The urban sector continues to expand in highly industrialized parts of the world with the diversification of land Marcuse et al (2014) highlight the lack of reflection at the micro, meso and macro urban scales and the power struggles these urban dynamics generate. More recently and more pertinent to our discussion here is the fact that urbanization follows on the coattails of the globalization of economic exchanges and rural-urban demographic shifts.…”

Section: Urban Theories and Planning: Links And Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Sustainability: How to Rethink Urban Planning

Bolay

2019

Future City

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In this chapter, we will dissect the salient elements of urban planning in terms of theoretical foundations and methodology, in order to demonstrate that in addition to criticism expressed by a certain number of authors regarding its transfer to cities of the South, urban planning does not focus on the key issues faced by local authorities and inhabitants, both in terms of target population groups and the infrastructures and services that should be given priority. We will highlight the translation of these theories, essentially of western origin, and their application to "other societies", trying to understand how throughout the course of history, this intellectual configuration of the city has been replicated in contexts subject to other injunctions and constraints. We will then deconstruct urban planning, viewing it not as a science but rather as a method that is applied with fieldadapted techniques, based on precepts that often lack clear definition, yet that is guided by instruments that can spatially and materially organize the distribution of individuals, their activities, goods, services, facilities and equipment, within a territory that is identified for geographical and administrative reasons. Urban planning takes into account the potential and the limitations of the natural (spatial and environmental) and human entities in question, including in its analysis the causes and impacts of the dynamics that affect the transformation of the city and its dwellers. The difficulty with urban planning is that it is based more or less explicitly on different disciplines (urbanism, architecture, engineering, economics, sociology, geography, etc.), that function independently with no formal obligation to work together/ cross reference, which means that many professional practices are used periodically and repeatedly. Sustainable development and urban sustainable development represent a conceptual framework allowing us to rethink urban planning. More than a technical tool giving voice to all stakeholders, a participatory approach is the most advanced methodological manner of anchoring planning in a local and regional democratic policy. As broadcast by the United Nations in 1987, "sustainable development" is defined above all by two essential components. First, the time factor, by emphasizing that development can only be sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".

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Critical Urban Theory versus Critical Urban Studies: A Review Debate

Cited by 22 publications

References 16 publications

Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production

Urban Planning Against Poverty

Global Sustainability: How to Rethink Urban Planning

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