Whither Urban Studies?
December 10, 2012 Leave a comment
Reblogged from cities@manchester:
by Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
In talking about urban studies I can only talk from and for the perspective I know best: the critical urban tradition that developed out of Marxism in the 1970s, as pioneered by the likes of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey and Manuel Castells. I tried to document and contribute toward this tradition in my book Metromarxism, where I claimed some of the best urban studies has been done by certain Marxists, and some the best Marxism has been done by certain urban theorists.


