The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies

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Narendar Pani (Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India)

The City as Action

Retheorizing Urban Studies

Narendar Pani (Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India)

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English

Routledge
25 September 2023

Urban communities; Geography; Human geography

Series: Global Urban Studies

In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places.

This book presents an innovative theoretical contribution to the field of urban studies, bridging the gap between western centric scholarship and perspectives from the global South. It offers conceptually rich insights, combining notions of cities as organisms, and references to postcolonial urban studies, with insights around aspirations, capabilities, agency, and social identity. It develops concepts, like the Proximity Principle, that help explain the experience of a city.

This conceptualization of the city as a process should interest all who are sensitive to cities, whether they study them in academia or simply develop close associations with specific urban places.

By: Narendar Pani (Professor National Institute of Advanced Studies Bengaluru India)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032052687
ISBN 10: 1032052686
Series: Global Urban Studies
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword. Preface. 1. In the midst of the urban. 2. The making of urban action. 3. Spaces and the Proximity Principle. 4. Negotiations of urban politics. 5. The place of the city. 6. The happenings of urban suspense. 7. The making and unmaking of institutions. 8. A city is what a city does.

Narendar Pani is Professor and Dean, School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India.

Reviews for The City as Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies

"""The book is to be recommended to academics in urban studies and its related fields, urban practitioners and anyone else interested in understanding more about the urban experience, especially when it comes to the unique circumstances and context of everyday lived realities in cities of the global South."" - Aleem Mahabir, Urban Studies Journal"