Learning the city : knowledge and translocal assemblage / / Colin McFarlane

• Autore: McFarlane Colin <1979->
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 218 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 303.32
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Social aspects; Social learning; Social epistemology
• Classificazione: SOC042000
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1 Learning Assemblages; Introduction; Translation: Distribution, Practice and Comparison; Coordinating Learning; Dwelling and Perception; Assemblage Space; Conclusion -- 2 Assembling the Everyday: Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning; Introduction; Incremental Urbanism; Learning the Unknown City: Street Children in Mumbai; Learning, Rhythm, Space; Tactical Learning; Conclusion -- 3 Learning Social Movements: Tactics, Urbanism and Politics; Introduction; Knowing Social Movements; Global Slumming; The Housing Assemblage: Materializing Learning; Learning and Representation: Counting the Poor; Entrepreneurial Learning; Conclusion -- 4 Urban Learning Forums; Introduction; Uncertain Forums; Dialogic Urban Forums; Translocalism and Translation; Conclusion -- 5 Travelling Policies, Ideological Assemblages; Introduction; Translating Policy; Comparative Learning: Translation and Colonial Urbanism; Ideology and Postwar Urban Planning; Neoliberal Urban Learning Assemblages; Ideology and Explanation: Beyond Diffusionist Story-Making; Conclusion -- 6 A Critical Geography of Urban Learning; Introduction; The Actual and the Possible; Agency and Critical Learning; Assemblage and the Critical Learning Imaginary; Postcolonial Urban Learning?; Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism. Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning; Integrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai's informal settlements with debates on urban policy, political economy, and development; Considers how knowledge and learning are conceived and created in cities; Addresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about urbanism between North and South.
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning the city
• ISBN: 9781444343434 (e-book); 9781405192828 (hbk.); 1-283-17825-7; 9786613178251; 1-4443-4343-2; 1-4443-4340-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811955503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: RGS-IBG book series ; ; 56