How To Think About Cities

How To Think About Cities
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 159
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ISBN-10 : 9781509536207
ISBN-13 : 1509536205
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Book Synopsis How To Think About Cities by : Deborah G. Martin

Download or read book How To Think About Cities written by Deborah G. Martin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across cities’ intricate landscapes, be they political, cultural, economic, or social. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to “cut through the noise” of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. How To Think About Cities sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and communities. This book describes the various ways of seeing the functions and landscapes of the city as place frames, and the constant process of negotiating which place frames best explain the city as place-making. Martin and Pierce call for an explicitly hybrid perspective that shifts between many different frames for making sense of cities. This approach highlights how any given stance opens up some lines of inquiry and understanding while closing off others. Thinking of cities as sites of contested perspectives promotes a synthetic approach to urban analysis that emphasizes difference and political possibility. This mosaic view of the city will be a welcome read for those within urban studies, geography, and social sciences exploring the many faces of urban life.


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