Learning the City
Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage
RGS-IBG Book Series
1. Edition August 2011
230 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Learning the City critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urbanism. The author combines the result of his fieldwork conducted in Mumbai and other regions with a synthesis of current theoretical research on knowledge, space, and materiality to show how learning should be viewed as central to the production and politics of cities. In doing so, he deploys the analytic of assemblage to explain the processes through which knowledge and learning enable and limit various forms of urbanism. Provocative and timely, this book offers invaluable insights into the role of learning in urban developmental studies.
Further versions
Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism.
* Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning
* Integrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai's informal settlements with debates on urban policy, political economy, and development
* Considers how knowledge and learning are conceived and created in cities
* Addresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about urbanism between North and South
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Learning Assemblages
2. Assembling the Everyday: Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning
3. Learning Social Movements: Tactics, Urbanism and Politics
4.Urban Learning Forums
5. Travelling Policies, Ideological Assemblages
6.A Critical Geography of Urban Learning
Conclusion
References
Index
