Writing alongside Southern urban theorists, this essay argues that the emerging body of
“theory from the South” must be simultaneously tied to the production of forms and theories …

260 Ananya Roy world-class city. I am interested in the making of consent to the world-class
city because I think it is important to understand this icon as more than a fetish, as more than …

We may be witnessing a 'Southern turn'in urban studies, but the implications for urban theory
are only beginning to be worked through. In this article, I argue the need for urbanists to …

Scholarship engaging with (northern) urban theory from the south has troubled the core of
urban studies. At this critical juncture, we argue that it is important to clarify core propositions …

Trends in contemporary global urbanization pose a significant challenge to theorizing cities.
The well-documented shift in the leading edge of urbanization from wealthier countries …

But unless theory is unanswerable, either through its successes or failure, to the essential
untidiness, the essential unmasterable presence that constitutes a large part of historical …

In their recent book, Cities: Reimagining the Urban, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift offer what they
characterize as a 'provisional diagram of how to understand the city'. They see this attempt …

Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social,
cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks …

In this paper I argue that cities in the global South constitute a distinctive 'type'of human
settlement. I begin by critiquing Brenner and Schmid's concept of planetary urbanization …

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid
urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain …