CITIES BETWEEN MODERNITY AND DEVELOPMENT

摘要: ABSTRACT The concept of modernity forms a basis for much intellectual work on the cultural politics cities today. Yet itself carries traces its origins in western cities, and urban theory. This has had profound consequences how poorer countries are conceptualised, effect diminishing resources imagining creativity dynamism these places. paper explores locatedness through Walter Benjamin, suggests association city with left other places troubled relationship to modern. anthropologies 1950s 1960s presented an opportunity revitalising theory, reconsidering accounts urbanism which carried ethnocentrism. was undermined by emergence developmentalism, consequent division studies between theory urb...