Comprendre les processus de déclin urbain à Flint (Michigan) : une approche inductive de l’« urbanisme subalterne » ?

Ananya Roy introduces the concept ?subaltern urbanism? in her 2011 article ?SlumdogCities : Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism?. She challenges researchers to move beyond existing epistemological and methodological limits, and offers four concepts which, taken together, serve as a useful starting point for understanding and representing subaltern urban space. In this article I argue that instead of a deductive approach that begins with an a priori identification of slums as subaltern urban space, an inductiveapproach of identifying subaltern urban space would expand the concept and show that subaltern urbanism exists in the global North. I present original research to show that Flint, Michigan, can be considered subaltern urban space. In the final section of the article I argue that this inductive approach to subaltern urbanism can foster comparative research across the North-South divide, and generate the transfer of knowledge from South to North.