L11 - Urban Theory

Question 1

Assemblage Urbanisms?

Answer 1

less political economy focused - the complex city, hard to capture in theory.

commitment to ‘empirical’ where categories of analysis are ‘found in’ rather than ‘taken to’ the city

explatory, open-ended….poststructural emphasis on the local

Question 2

Neoliberal urbanisms?

Answer 2

more political economy focused - roll of city in sites of neoliberal rollout/resistance

positions cities on moving landscapes of transformation

operates through stylised cases

Question 3

Conjunctural urbanisms?

Answer 3

cities as knots in complex systems…dialogue between macro/micro, sense of social agency but also of structural conditions

‘multiple causality, uses cases to unsettle theories.’

‘thick theorisation’

working with particularities but also interpreting them into wider frames