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Doing comparative urbanism differently: conjunctural cities and the stress-testing of urban theory
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posted on 2020-08-20, 10:12 authored by Özgür Sayın, Michael HoylerMichael Hoyler, John HarrisonJohn HarrisonOngoing splintering and siloification in urban studies require alternative approaches to
bring the major theoretical and epistemological perspectives into constructive dialogue.
Reflecting growing calls for engaged pluralism, we analyse the extent to which different
perspectives can come together as complementary alternatives in understanding cities,
and present a framework for overcoming the key theoretical and methodological
challenges caused by fragmentation. Using Istanbul as our illustrative case, we do this in
three steps. Theoretically, we stress-test the potentials and limits of four dominant
perspectives in urban theory making – global cities, state rescaling, developmental and
postcolonial – revealing how each can only ever generate a partial, one-dimensional,
explanation. Methodologically, we proceed to make the case for doing comparative
urbanism differently by developing a conjunctural approach. Finally, and conceptually,
we identify ‘conjunctural cities’ as a distinctive type of city and as a new approach to
analysing cities. Our contention is that approaching all cities conjuncturally provides a
significant step towards putting engaged pluralism into action, as well as indicating new
terrain on which the future of urban theory/urban studies can be constructively debated.
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- Social Sciences and Humanities
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- Geography and Environment
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Urban StudiesVolume
59Issue
2Pages
263 - 280Publisher
SAGE PublicationsVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Sage under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Acceptance date
2020-08-18Publication date
2020-10-06Copyright date
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0042-0980eISSN
1360-063XPublisher version
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- en
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Mr Michael Hoyler Deposit date: 20 August 2020Usage metrics
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