TY - JOUR
AU - Robinson, Jennifer
AB - Colin McFarlane Department of Geography Durham University Durham, United Kingdom Jennifer Robinson Department of Geography University College London London, United Kingdom Urban studies is currently witnessing both a revival and a reorientation of comparative research (Robinson, 2005, 2006, 2011; Nijman, 2007a, 2007b; McFarlane, 2010; Ward, 2010). This is partly a result of urban researchers tracking traveling urban processes, including: the globalizing and “inter-referencing” of urban policy or models; the circula- tion of architectural, consultant, and developer expertise; the workings of transnational urban activism; or the shifting global resonances of urban cultures and milieux. Research- ers increasingly engage across a much wider range of urban contexts in their search for understanding and theoretical inspiration (e.g., Peck and Theodore, 2010; McCann and Ward, 2011; Roy and Ong, 2011; Cochrane and Ward, 2012). But this resurgence of inter- est in comparativism is also a response to the changing landscape of global urbanisation per se, as urbanization trends in cities that might have previously been sidelined in much urban thinking now place them at the heart of the propagation of 21st- century urbanisms (Roy, 2005; Parnell et al., 2009; Watson, 2009). Thinking and theorizing cities over the next decades will, we believe, challenge 
TI - Introduction—Experiments in Comparative Urbanism
JF - Urban Geography
DO - 10.2747/0272-3638.33.6.765
DA - 2012-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/introduction-experiments-in-comparative-urbanism-g35Oq9nLrF
SP - 765
EP - 773
VL - 33
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -