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GE4204 URBAN SPACE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES : (AGAINST CATEGORISATION…
GE4204
URBAN SPACE:
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
:
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Think Critically
Challenge and unsettle existing understandings of the urban world
Urban lives
Urban futures
Content
Urban Theories
How
When
From where
Conventional and alternative
Empirical Examples
Urban issues
Policies
Struggles
Aspirations
AGAINST CATEGORISATION
Problems with Old Module
(-) Developing as problematic
But problems not unique to them
(-) Single developmental pathway
Influence of external environment
Ignores that some cities develop at the expense of others
From developing to developed
(-) 'Developed' vs. 'developing' cities
E.g. a 'developing' city within LA
More complex and nuanced geographies
Robinson (2006) Ordinary Cities
Critique on hierarchal categorisation
Cities for the production of urban theory
Cities for developmentalist intervention
Leads to ascribing prominence to only certain cities and features
Ordinary cities
All dynamic and diverse
Dick & Rimmer (1998) Beyond the Third World City
Critique on regional categorisation
The
Southeast Asian city
Like Third World cities
Distinct urban category
McGee (1967)
Was criticised
But claimed he was writing from SEA
Against Western-centred theorization