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Encountering, describing and transforming urbanism

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  • Colin McFarlane

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In this paper, I present some concluding reflections on the 'Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis’ debate that has taken place in the last few issues of City . Prompted by the eight insightful commentaries in the debate, I consider just three sets of contributions and limitations that assemblage thinking brings to making sense of and developing alternatives to contemporary urbanism: on encountering urban life, on the limits of description and on the possibilities for a radical urban commons. I argue that assemblage thinking provides a set of useful perspectives for conceptualising and intervening in urbanism, and that its potential can only be realised in conjunction with different urban critical, activist and marginalised knowledges.

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  • Colin McFarlane, 2011. "Encountering, describing and transforming urbanism," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(6), pages 731-739, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:731-739
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.632901
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    1. Creighton Connolly, 2019. "Worlding cities through transportation infrastructure," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 51(3), pages 617-635, May.
    2. Amy Mills, 2014. "Cultures of assemblage, resituating urban theory: A response to the papers on 'Assembling Istanbul'," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(6), pages 691-697, December.

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