GGRB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rush Hour, Political Geography, Cognitive Map
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Lecture 5: experiencing the city: urban space and everyday life. Understanding the city through personal experience and the everyday. So far we have looked at quantitative approaches to the city (e. g. through ideas like. Burgess" model), economic perspectives on the city (e. g. through terms like deindustrialization, global cities), and urban political geography approaches to the city (e. g. through the last lecture on urban governance) What counts as useful and important knowledge about cities? (amin and. Thrift, 2007: is it just about the metric units, looking at cities as economic drivers, these things tend to go unuseful, personal and objective understandings. The authors argue that it is not just measurements of economic strength such as the number of firms, data about the local workforce, cities" rankings in the global economy etc. There other ways to explore and make theory about cities. The city as a site of everyday practices.
