Readings

Question 1

Robinson 2015

Answer 1

comparative advocator, as an ambition to test/change theory…‘thinking cities through elsewhere’

Question 2

Randolf & Storper 2023

Answer 2

GS urbanising through historically/geographically specific trajectories - article examines GS through S-N comparative…

4 variables, demography, economic development, migration + production of built environment

Question 3

Hamnett 2020

Answer 3

Key role of state/party in land ownership and development financing - forced urbanisation…. urbanisation with Chinese characteristics

Question 4

Peck 2015

Answer 4

need for more pluralist and comparative approaches…

Question 5

Nijman 2017

Answer 5

comparisons across time/space - miami through elsewhere

‘world cities function as central nodes in the global flow of capital, goods, and people.’ 94

multiple individualising comparisons ‘maintain a primary focus on one single case and attain a richer understanding of that case through multiple comparisons with other selected cases.’ 93

AMS-MI: geopolitics and political economy
HK-MI: refugees/immigrants
SHA-MI: foreigners/immigrants, illegal economy
DU-MI: relational capacity