Encountering, describing and transforming urbanism

Colin McFarlane

City, 2011, vol. 15, issue 6, 731-739

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2011
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