Jennifer Robinson

Broschiertes Buch

Ordinary Cities

Between Modernity and Development

Beschreibung

This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for thinking about urban development and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy, between Western and other cities.

Autor

Jennifer Robinson is Professor of Urban Geography at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Produktdetails

• Questioning Cities
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU25855
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780415304887
• ISBN-10: 0415304881
• Artikelnr.: 20776029

Rezensionen

"All cities are ordinary, argues Robinson, and categorizing them as Western, Third World, developed, developing, world, or global ascribes prominence to certain cities and to certain features of cities. Instead, she starts from the fact that all cities are dynamic and diverse, if conflicted, arenas for social and economic life and anchors on that notion a new post-colonial framework for thinking about cities that avoids the underlying assumption of urban scholarship that Western cities are exemplary and Third World cities more or less poor imitations." --Reference & Research Book News