在把城市建设成一系列相互关联的行动时，这本书提供了一条了解城市的捷径。它为城市理论的几个核心问题带来了一个全新的视角，包括城市的独特性以及它与其他城市地方共享的实践。
本书对城市研究领域做出了创新性的理论贡献，弥合了以西方为中心的学术与来自全球南方的观点之间的差距。它提供了丰富的概念性见解，结合了城市作为有机体的概念和后殖民城市研究的参考，以及关于抱负、能力、机构和社会身份的见解。它发展了一些概念，比如邻近原则，帮助解释城市的体验。
将城市概念化为一个过程应该引起所有对城市敏感的人的兴趣，无论他们是在学术界研究城市，还是仅仅与特定的城市场所建立密切的联系。
The City As Action: Retheorizing Urban Studies (Global Urban Studies)
In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places.
This book presents an innovative theoretical contribution to the field of urban studies, bridging the gap between western centric scholarship and perspectives from the global South. It offers conceptually rich insights, combining notions of cities as organisms, and references to postcolonial urban studies, with insights around aspirations, capabilities, agency, and social identity. It develops concepts, like the Proximity Principle, that help explain the experience of a city.
This conceptualization of the city as a process should interest all who are sensitive to cities, whether they study them in academia or simply develop close associations with specific urban places.
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