ISBN:
9781000852455
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Urban History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Urbanization
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Urban knowledge and the politics of governing cities -- Urban knowledge and its politics -- Governing and administering the city -- Contesting the city -- Imagining the 'good' city -- Circulating knowledgeable politics -- Overview of the volume -- Ways of urban knowing -- Trajectories of urban knowing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Ways of Urban Knowing -- 2. The emergence of cartographic reasoning in a long-term perspective: Urban knowledge, craft corporations and body politics -- Introduction -- The city as a body -- The body as an instrument of work: The city and the body of appearance -- The body as an instrument of knowledge: The city and the body of knowledge -- The body as a state: Body politics and the making of the artificial body (construct) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Epistemological fields of urban intervention: Urban reform, surveys and historic centres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century -- Introduction -- The progressive recognition of the urban environment as problematic -- A new paradigm and its legitimation -- The Musée Social: The city as a space of reform -- The Urbaneum: Surveys of the city as an interactive environment -- Altstadt (Old Town): The city as a system of values, identity and heritage -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. From the 'scientised' to the 'sociocratic' city: The politics of knowledge and norm change in post-war urban planning in the Netherlands -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework: Urban knowledge regimes and norm entrepreneurs -- Urban expansion and redevelopment as a scientised practice (1950-1965) -- Norm entrepreneurs challenging the 'scientised city' (1965-1975).
Abstract:
"This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration. Urbanization has been accompanied, and partly shaped by, the formation of the city as a distinct domain of knowledge. This volume uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to develop a new perspective on urban history and urban planning history. Through case studies of mainly 19th and 20th century examples, the book demonstrates that urban knowledge is not simply a neutral means to represent cities as pre-existing entities, but rather the outcome of historically contingent processes and practices of urban actors addressing urban issues and the power relations in which they are embedded. It shows how urban knowledge-making has reshaped the categories, rationales, and techniques through which urban spaces were produced, governed and contested, and how the knowledge concerned became performative of newly emerging urban orders. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of urban history and urban studies, as well as the history of technology, science and knowledge and of science studies"--
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