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2 de oct. de 2023 · What does it mean to know a city? Considering and synthesising two options—namely, that knowing a city is comparable to knowing a person and that a city is a process rather than a...
16 de abr. de 2024 · The project draws on the South African city and South African urban scholarship as a laboratory to problematise stark divisions between theory and empirics, north and south, policy engagement and radical critique, or transformation and decolonisation. It seeks to bring to urban debates varied sites, practices and registers of ...
Understanding the City. Sukriti Issar. The course focuses on the city that we can see when we walk around, the city of buildings and people; and also the city that we don't always see – the city of sentiments, conflict, traffic flows, bike messengers, sewage networks, asset prices and municipal taxation, of animals and nature.
Knowing the city | Eurozine. Interview with Rob Shields. Andres Kurg. Rob Shields. 2 July 2004. The “city” has become a favourite object of research in academia as well as the cultural mainstream and has spawned the areas of history, geography, sociology, literature and architecture.
31 de may. de 2023 · We examine the rise of smart city developments and associated big data narratives by drawing upon urban planning scholarship that critiques technocratic planning practices and ‘objective’ positivistic knowledge embodying instrumental rationalities, as well as the subsequent rise of contemporary planning practices founded on ...
What makes knowing the city and tackling urban problems even more complicated is that cities are complex systems. They consist of multiple interrelationships within the city, across the globe and also with the natural environment. Because of these interrelationships, changes in conditions and behaviour at the micro scale can have unexpected – and
16 de jun. de 2020 · Knowing the City through the New Urban Science A common aim for all urban researchers is to develop comprehensive insights on how cities emerge and change over time. There is a shared understanding that urban knowledge is useful to expose undesirable conditions and to devise potential remedies.
