TY  - BOOK
AU  - McFarlane,Colin
TI  - Learning the city: knowledge and translocal assemblage 
T2  - RGS-IBG book series
SN  - 978-1-4051-9282-8
U1  - 303.32 23E
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Malden, Oxford
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Urbanization / Social aspects
KW  - Social learning
KW  - Social epistemology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 185-204; Machine generated contents note: Introduction.1. Learning assemblages.2. Assembling the everyday: incremental urbanism and tactical learning.3. Learning social movements: tactics, urbanism and politics.4. Urban learning forums.5. Travelling policies, ideological assemblages.6. A critical geography of urban learning.Conclusion
N2  - "Learning the City critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urbanism. It argues both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and for a resurgence of learning that represents a critical opportunity to develop a progressive international urbanism. The author combines the result of his fieldwork conducted in Mumbai and other regions with a synthesis of the most current theoretical research on knowledge, space, and materiality to show how learning should be viewed as central to the production and politics of cities. In doing so, he deploys the analytic of assemblage to explain the complex processes through which knowledge and learning enable and limit various forms of urbanism. This groundbreaking work examines learning as a practice, explores learning as tactics, and reveals how learning is intrinsic to the shape of political imaginaries, strategies, and contestations. A critical discussion of the types of learning environments that may facilitate more socially just urbanisms is also included. Provocative, timely, and fraught with scholarly rigor, Learning the City offers invaluable insights into the role of learning in urban developmental studies"--
ER  -