Learning the city [electronic resource] : knowledge and translocal assemblage / Colin McFarlane.
2011
HT361 .M42 2011eb
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Learning the city [electronic resource] : knowledge and translocal assemblage / Colin McFarlane.
Author
McFarlane, Colin, 1979-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781405192828 (hardback)
9781405192811 (paperback)
9781444343403 (ePDF)
9781444343434
9781444343410 (ePub)
9781444343427 (mobi)
9781444343403 (e-book)
9781405192811 (paperback)
9781444343403 (ePDF)
9781444343434
9781444343410 (ePub)
9781444343427 (mobi)
9781444343403 (e-book)
Publication Details
Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 218 p. : ill.
Call Number
HT361 .M42 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.3/2
Summary
"Learning the City critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urbanism. It argues both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and for a resurgence of learning that represents a critical opportunity to develop a progressive international urbanism. The author combines the result of his fieldwork conducted in Mumbai and other regions with a synthesis of the most current theoretical research on knowledge, space, and materiality to show how learning should be viewed as central to the production and politics of cities. In doing so, he deploys the analytic of assemblage to explain the complex processes through which knowledge and learning enable and limit various forms of urbanism. This groundbreaking work examines learning as a practice, explores learning as tactics, and reveals how learning is intrinsic to the shape of political imaginaries, strategies, and contestations. A critical discussion of the types of learning environments that may facilitate more socially just urbanisms is also included. Provocative, timely, and fraught with scholarly rigor, Learning the City offers invaluable insights into the role of learning in urban developmental studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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RGS-IBG book series ; 56.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction.1. Learning assemblages.2. Assembling the everyday: incremental urbanism and tactical learning.3. Learning social movements: tactics, urbanism and politics.4. Urban learning forums.5. Travelling policies, ideological assemblages.6. A critical geography of urban learning.Conclusion.