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

John R. Bryson

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

John R. Bryson

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies
Subtitle of host publication	People, Place and Space
Editors	John Bryson, Ronald Kalafsky, Vida Vanchan
Place of Publication	Cheltenham
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Chapter	11
Pages	212–235
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	9781789908022
ISBN (Print)	9781789908015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789908022.00019
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 17 Aug 2021

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Name	Cities series

Keywords

reframing urban theory
forms of life
Malvern
variegated urbanism
multi-scalar
parallax dimension
interpolations

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General Social Sciences

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Ordinary cities, extraordinary geographies: people, place and space
Bryson, J. R., Kalafsky, R. & Vanchan, V., 20 Aug 2021, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 264 p. (Cities Series)
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Bryson, J. R. (2021). Reframing urban theory: smaller towns and cities, forms of life, embedded plasticity and variegated urbanism. In J. Bryson, R. Kalafsky, & V. Vanchan (Eds.), Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies: People, Place and Space (pp. 212–235). (Cities series). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789908022.00019

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Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies: People, Place and Space. ed. / John Bryson; Ronald Kalafsky; Vida Vanchan. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2021. p. 212–235 (Cities series).

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

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