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Whose City Benchmarks? The Role of the Critical Urbanist in Comparative Urban Measuring

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  • Michele Acuto
  • Daniel Pejic
  • Jessie Briggs

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By way of rejoinder to the commentaries on our intervention by a selection of urban scholars, we expand the discussion on the nature of scholarly engagement with comparative city benchmarking and the practitioners and interests that underpin it beyond academia. While the short‐termist, competitive and data‐driven assumptions that suffuse benchmarking activity warrant clear and well‐informed criticism, we argue that there is a place for critical and self‐reflexive scholarly engagement with benchmarking practices. We respond to the responses by stressing that this position has the potential to improve the value of benchmarks as one of the many tools with which to pursue a more equitable global urbanism.

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  • Michele Acuto & Daniel Pejic & Jessie Briggs, 2021. "Whose City Benchmarks? The Role of the Critical Urbanist in Comparative Urban Measuring," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(2), pages 389-392, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:45:y:2021:i:2:p:389-392
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12979
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    1. Michele Acuto & Mehrnaz Ghojeh, 2019. "C40 Cities Inside Out," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 10(4), pages 709-711, November.
    2. Rachel Bok, 2021. "Wayfinding in the Long Shadow of City Benchmarking: Or How to Manufacture (an Economy of) Comparability in the Global Urban," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(2), pages 381-384, March.
    3. Enora Robin, 2021. "City Benchmarking, Globalized Urban Scholarship and the View from Above: Reflections on a Few Absences," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(2), pages 378-380, March.
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