Critical Urban Studies New Directions

• Main Authors: Davies, Jonathan S., Imbroscio, David L., Stone, Clarence N. (Clarence Nathan)
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Albany State University of New York Press 2010; SUNY Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Cities and towns; Cities and towns > Study and teaching; City Planning & Urban Development; Parochialism; POLITICAL SCIENCE; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Politics and Law : Political Science; Public Policy; Public Policy & Administration; Public Policy : Public Policy; Social change; Social conditions; Social scientists; Sociology : Sociology; Sociology : Urban Studies; Sociology, Urban; Sociology, Urban > Study and teaching; Study and teaching; Urban policy; Urban policy > Study and teaching; Urban sociology; Urban Studies; Urbanism
• ISBN: 9781438433059; 1438433050; 9781438433066; 1438433069; 9781438433073; 1438433077

This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors of late, particularly in mainstream political science, where it has been accused of parochialism and insularity. Critical Urban Studies offers a sharp repudiation of this critique, reasserting the need for critical urban scholarship and demonstrating the fundamental importance of urban studies for understanding and changing contemporary social life. Contributors to the volume identify an orthodox perspective in the field, subject it to critique, and map out a future research agenda for the field. The result is a series of inventive essays pointing scholars and students to the major theoretical and policy challenges facing urbanists and other critical social scientists.