Ordinary Cities by Jennifer Robinson
This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for thinking about urban development and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy, between Western and other cities.-
In the Nature of Cities
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Small Cities
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Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities
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Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene
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Cities, Nationalism and Democratization
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Urban Cosmopolitics
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Between Bohemia and Suburbia
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The Urban Condition
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Urban Assemblages
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Cities in Globalization
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Cities and Race
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Global Metropolitan
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Reason in the City of Difference
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Why Transportation Fails
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Searching for the Just City
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Life in the Megalopolis
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City Publics
"All cities are ordinary, argues Robinson, and categorizing them as Western, Third World, developed, developing, world, or global ascribes prominence to certain cities and to certain features of citiesInstead, she starts from the fact that all cities are dynamic and diverse, if conflicted, arenas for social and economic life and anchors on that notion a new post-colonial framework for thinking about cities that avoids the underlying assumption of urban scholarship that Western cities are exemplary and Third World cities more or less poor imitations." --Reference & Research Book News
Jennifer Robinson is Professor of Urban Geography at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415304887 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415304881 |
| Title | Ordinary Cities |
| Author | Jennifer Robinson |
| Series | Questioning Cities |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-12-08 |
| Number of pages | 218 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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