GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Edward Soja, Urban Studies, Leading Edge
27 Apr 2016
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Idea of worlding cities come from a book by ananya roy and aihwa ong. Theorizing cities and the euro-american bias: institutional bias in urban studies assumes western europe and north. America are the leading edge of global urban change. Edward soja and la school believes studying la can inform us about the world beyond la. Criteria used in urban studies to evaluate cities has been evaluative and normative. Arguing the opposite transformations happening in the global. South: scholars now calling to provincialize western cities (steve pile), which they view are strange cases, not universal ones, constant looking to the west as urban innovator has real consequences. Leaves cities in the global south unable to deal with their realities, which are different from the realities of cities in the global north. Local governments try to impose western solutions (grand master planning) to locally specific problems. Too much uncritical information imported to the global south.
