Robinson, J;
(2013)
The urban now: Theorising cities beyond the new.
European Journal of Cultural Studies
, 16
(6)
pp. 659-677.
10.1177/1367549413497696.
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Abstract
Urban studies has aligned cities closely with modernity, with strong implications for their conceptualisation. Through the 20th century the founding analyses of urban studies drew on a specific (western) version of urban modernity to define universal accounts of urbanity, excluding many cities from contributing to broader theorisations of the urban. In addition, urban theory has often been inspired by the modernity of cities, identifying 'the new' as the basis for distinctive approaches to understanding cities. In the wake of the move towards a more global urban studies, the extent to which traditions of thinking cities through the inherited analytical lens of urban modernity persist needs to be considered. To counter the continuing effects of theorising from the idea of modernity, or the new, the analytical device of the 'urban now' is developed from Walter Benjamin's analysis of modernity to propose new geographies of theorising the urban. © The Author(s) 2013.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The urban now: Theorising cities beyond the new |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1367549413497696 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549413497696 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Global urban studies, modernity, urban theory, Walter Benjamin |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1455828 |
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