Ordinary Urbanism—Neither Trap Nor Tableaux: A Response to Richard G Smith

Mark Jayne
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Mark Jayne: School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester. Arthur Lewis Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, England

Environment and Planning A, 2013, vol. 45, issue 10, 2305-2313

Abstract: This paper responds to Richard G Smith's review of ordinary city writing which he describes as ‘a trap for progressive international urbanism’. I focus on questioning how and why Smith develops his ‘critique of a critique’. More specifically, I consider the ways that Smith defines the boundaries of both the ordinary cities literature and the world/global cities writing that he pits against each other. Discussing genealogy and influence I offer a more optimistic but not uncritical view of role of ordinary city thinking in advancing critical urbanism.

Keywords: the ordinary city; world/global city/global-city region; comparative urbanism; knowledge and learning; urban assemblages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1068/a46135

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