L5 - Comparative Urbanisation

Question 1

What can comparative urbanisation bring us?

Answer 1

1. clearer views on similarity and variation in and across contexts
2. establishes relevance of patterns & processes in order to give ‘theory’

Question 2

Nomothetic =

Answer 2

Universal ‘laws’ (scales in GDP/infrastructure efficiency)

[-] the urban is limited to simple size measures

Question 3

Idiographic =

Answer 3

Each is unique

[-] conceptual disintegration + oversaturation of theory

Question 4

Peck 2015

Answer 4

Need a clear theoretical sense of significance/properties before beginning to organise dialogue across urban studies

Neoliberal city = can be compared to neoliberal processes but need to look at patterns, not checklist

Question 5

Individualising =

Answer 5

specific processes/characteristics, making sense through comparisons

Nijman 2007: Miami as world city

Question 6

Universalising =

Answer 6

how different phenomenon follow the (broad) same rules

Koch 2015: Dubai copy

Question 7

Variation finding =

Answer 7

differences in character/intensity of seemingly similar phenomena

Wacquant 2007: fench balieue vs. US ghetto

Question 8

Encompassing =

Answer 8

different instances in various locations, and their relation to the system as a whole

Taylor & Derudder 2016: WCN

Question 9

Conjunctural Urbanism =

Answer 9

distinctive urbanisms, with different perspectives coming together as complementary alternatives

Sayin 2022: Istanbul, what different concepts reveal and hide