New forms of urbanization are unfolding around the world that challenge inherited
conceptions of the urban as a fixed, bounded and universally generalizable settlement type …

Urbanization has unquestionably become one of the most pressing issues of the 21st
century (Parnell, 2016). Marked by economic and environmental crises, challenges of global …

Christian Schmid, for their obvious level of sophistication, broad reading of the literature, and
evident familiarity with cities and the thorny problems they present for social scientists. I …

With the publication of their piece 'Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban?'in City 19 (2–
3), Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid hoped to ignite a debate about the adequacy of …

In the midst of what has been termed the 'urban age', two divergent approaches to
understanding life in cities have emerged. In this first of three urban geography progress …

Advocating a provincialization of critical urban theory, we seek to move beyond current
polarizations and disputes over the basis of urban theory, creating space to take seriously …

Urban studies today is marked by many active debates. In an earlier paper, we addressed
some of these debates by proposing a foundational concept of urbanisation and urban form …

The urban has become a keyword of early twenty-first-century economic, political, and
cultural discourse. But as its resonance has intensified in social science and in the public …

“To thematize requires a project to select its objects, deploy them in a bounded field, and
submit them to disciplined inquiry”(Guha, 1997, xv) Mainstream urban scholarship envisions …

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