With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for urban development. It makes the argument that all cities are best understood as 'ordinary', and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy between Western and other cities (especially those labeled 'Third World'). It considers the two framing axes of urban modernity and development, and argues that if cities are to be imagined in equitable and creative ways, urban theory must overcome these axes with their Western bias, and that resources must become at least as cosmopolitan as cities themselves. Tracking paths across previously separate literatures and debates, this innovative book, a post colonial critique of urban studies, traces the outlines of a cosmopolitan approach to cities, drawing on evidence from Rio, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Kuala Lumpur. Key urban scholars and debates, from Simmel, Benjamin and the Chicago School to Global and World Cities theories are explored, together with anthropological and developmentalist accounts of poorer cities. Offering an alternative approach, "Ordinary Cities" skilfully brings together theories of urban development for students and researchers of urban studies, geography and development.
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剛開始讀感覺很新奇，特彆是作者對於城市現代性概念的全球流轉和演化的解讀。但是和ong 提齣的neoliberalism as the assemblage類似，感覺怪怪的……
评分隻讀Intro和Ch. 3-4就差不多可以瞭 讀到最後覺得Robinson車軲轆話來迴說...不過還是蠻值得一讀
评分貢獻主要是在認識論層麵的，方法論層麵一遍沒有留下什麼印象深刻之處。作者自己給齣的示範我也覺得有些乏善可陳。當然可能這麼評價已經失之偏頗，因為作者目的更多在與反思現代性和發展話語吧。
评分隻讀Intro和Ch. 3-4就差不多可以瞭 讀到最後覺得Robinson車軲轆話來迴說...不過還是蠻值得一讀
评分貢獻主要是在認識論層麵的，方法論層麵一遍沒有留下什麼印象深刻之處。作者自己給齣的示範我也覺得有些乏善可陳。當然可能這麼評價已經失之偏頗，因為作者目的更多在與反思現代性和發展話語吧。
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