• DOI:10.1068/d21911
Corpus ID: 144077154

City as Ideology: Reconciling the Explosion of the City Form with the Tenacity of the City Concept

@article{Wachsmuth2014CityAI,
  title={City as Ideology: Reconciling the Explosion of the City Form with the Tenacity of the City Concept},
  author={David Wachsmuth},
  journal={Environment and Planning D: Society and Space},
  year={2014},
  volume={32},
  pages={75 - 90}
}

David Wachsmuth

Published 2014

Sociology

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

This paper is a theoretical reexamination of the traditional concept of the city in the context of urbanization processes that exceed it. Recent decades have seen a proliferation of new variations on the city concept, as well as calls to discard it altogether. I argue that both options are inadequate. The city has generally been understood as a category of analysis—a moment in urbanization processes—but might now be better understood as a category of practice: an ideological representation of… CONTINUE READING

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