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posted on 2019-03-12, 14:22 authored by Ben Derudder, Michiel Van MeeterenIn this Intervention we discuss possible engagements between an inherently diverse
urban geography and an emergent “urban science” dealing with information technologydriven, quantitative analysis of urban data. Although initial responses from some
quarters of the urban geography community have been dismissive, we highlight three
ways in which urban geography could positively engage with urban science: (1) by
exhibiting greater ownership of our discipline’s past and the legacy of spatial science; (2)
by resisting equating post-positivism with anti-positivism; and (3) by recognizing that
the inherent ability of urban science to address post-truth thinking can be a useful
building block in a pluralist approach to urban geography. We contend that (a) urban
geographers need to be open to the use of new urban science methods to interrogate the
pressing issues of our time and (b) where appropriate, inject cautionary tales of the
dangers of a naive positivism in an uncritical urban science.
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Urban GeographyCitation
DERUDDER, B. and VAN MEETEREN, M., 2019. Engaging with “urban science”. Urban Geography, 40 (4), pp.555-564.Publisher
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography on 27 February 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02723638.2019.1585138.Acceptance date
2019-02-05Publication date
2019-02-27ISSN
0272-3638eISSN
1938-2847Publisher version
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