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Reframing urban theory: smaller towns and cities, forms of life, embeddedplasticity and variegated urbanism

Year: 2021

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter offers a final discussion regarding this book’s contribution to the recent debate regarding reframing urban theory, but from the perspective of variegated urbanism. It reflects back on the chapters presented in this collection and identifies themes highlighted in each chapter in this book, but initially positions the argument within a broader conceptual framework. The focus is on the difficulties associated with identifying patterns. It develops an approach to understanding cities based on Wittgenstein’s concept of forms of life. It then analyzes of forms of life that is framed within the literature on embeddedness and extends this concept to highlight that embeddedness involves plasticity.

Source: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks

DOI: 10.4337/9781789908022.00019

Authors: John R. Bryson, Vida Vanchan, Ronald V. Kalafsky

Institution: University of Birmingham

Language: English

Topic: Urban Planning and Governance

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council