Urban Theory, Knowledge, Politics.
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The city is complex. We therefore need theories to explain this complexity. But what kinds of theory are appropriate? How do we avoid stripping out the defining complexity when searching for powerful theories?
Davidson, M. (2024) Situational Analysis and Urban Theory, Progress in Human Geography, 48(2)
The politics of the city are defined by anchoring concepts. This means continually reckoning is what democracy means.
Davidson, M. and Iveson, K. (2015) Recovering the politics of the city, Progress in Human Geography, 39(5), 543-559
Philosophy, Theory, Method.
“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”
― Slavoj Žižek
Our moral outlooks change how we see the city, its problems, and their prospective solutions.
Davidson, M. (2023) Justice and Cities: Metro Morals (Routledge: London)
