Politics of Urban Knowledge (eBook, ePUB)

Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities
Redaktion: De Munck, Bert; Lachmund, Jens

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000852455
• Artikelnr.: 67444398

Autorenporträt

Bert De Munck is full professor at the History Department at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, teaching 'Early Modern History', 'Theory of Historical Knowledge', and 'History of Science and Society'. He is the Director of the interdisciplinary Urban Studies Institute and the international Scientific Research Community (WOG) 'Urban Agency: The Historical Fabrication of the City as an Object of Study'. Jens Lachmund is a sociologist and senior lecturer in science and technology studies at Maastricht University, Netherlands. He has conducted research on the historical sociology of medicine, and on the politics of (urban) environmental knowledge. His publications include Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature (Boston, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: WAYS OF URBAN KNOWING
2. The emergence of cartographic reasoning in a long-term perspective:
Urban knowledge, craft corporations and body politics
Jasna Seri¿ & Bert De Munck
3. The epistemological fields of urban intervention: Urban reform, surveys
and historic centres, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Pieter Uyttenhove & Wouter Van Acker
4. From the 'scientized' to the 'sociocratic' city: The politics of
knowledge and norm change in post-war urban planning in the Netherlands
Tim Verlaan & Stefan Couperus
Part 2: TRAJECTORIES OF URBAN KNOWING
5. Urban populations and urban problems in Quetelet's population statistics
of the mid-nineteenth century
Kaat Louckx
6. Knowledge appropriation in Belo Horizonte: Intertwining the urban, the
suburban and the rural
Patricia Capanema Alvares Fernandes & Viviana D'Auria
7. Decoding zoning: Categorisation and commonality in land-use planning
knowledge
Julio Paulos & Marko Marskamp
8. Between straight lines and winding alleys: Streets as boundary objects
in the transnational modernization of urban planning in Iran
Pouya Sepehr & Erik Aarden
9. Counting and caring for urban trees: Street tree surveys and citizen
protest in twentieth-century West Berlin
Sonja Dümpelmann
10. Knowledge-making and the quest for a sustainable city: Promoting
community food growing in London
Jens Lachmund
11. Smart cities, knowledge generation and the enduring pursuit of urban
innovation
Andrew Karvonen