Cities: Reimagining the Urban

By A. Bayat. 2003

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This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of Quick links

Subfields: Transportation, Urban Studies

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Influence of Experiences on Memories, Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions: A Study of Creative Tourism (2016, background): “The concepts of “experience economy”, “educational tourism”, and “entertainment economy” helped to make creative tourism still more popular (Amin & Thrift, 2002; Bodger, 1998; Pine & Gilmore, 1999; Tan et al., 2013).”
Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: the process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’ (2012, background): “Expanding and opening up existing territorial understandings of social processes (Allen and Cochrane, 2007; MacLeod and Jones, 2007), cities are being increasingly understood relationally (Allen et al., 1998; Amin and Thrift, 2002; Amin, 2004).”
Creative Small Cities: Rethinking the Creative Economy in Place (2009, background): “Instead, the case of Wollongong shows how cities are characterised by networks of interconnections and fl ows (Amin and Thrift, 2002).”
Avoiding the Local Trap (2006, background): “Recent debates in geography have made clear that scale and network are different concepts, and each has particular strengths and weaknesses in how it illuminates contemporary society (Whatmore and Thorne 1997; Brenner 2001; Amin and Thrift 2002).”
‘I Don’t Trust the Phone; It Always Lies’ (2007, background): “…business conferences (Fafchamps 2001, 208) and Kenyan Asians having a casual conversation at the club, mosque, or family gathering (McCormick 1997, 122), to workers in Singapore’s ªnancial sector who make “sites of pleasure in the city come alive as business institutions” (Amin & Thrift 2002, 75).”
A MODEL OF ‘CREATIVE EXPERIENCE’ IN CREATIVE TOURISM (2013, neutral): “Creative industries are especially popular in an ‘experience economy’ (Pine & Gilmore, 1999), ‘entertainment economy’ (Amin & Thrift, 2002) or ‘educational tourism’ context (Bodger, 1998).”
Recorded music and practices of remembering (2004, background): “This task is imperative, I would argue, if work on the geographies of music consumption is to consider some of the practical effects that stem from the remarkable presence recorded music has within the ‘to and fro’ of Western everyday life (Amin and Thrift 2002: 94).”
Exogenous sources of regional industrial change (2018, background): “The industrial development of thick and diversified RISs must be understood in the context of non-local knowledge exchange, or ‘in the context of distanciated economic flows and networks’ (Amin and Thrift, 2002: 53).”
Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts (2014, background): “…Big Data may seek to be exhaustive, a whole domain and providing full resolution, it is both a representation provide oligoptic views of the world: views from certain vantage points, using particular tools, rather than an all-seeing, infallible God’s eye view (Amin and Thrift, 2002; Haraway, 1991).”
Cities, Clusters and Creative Industries: The Case of Film and Television in Scotland (2003, background): “For instance, business networks may be national or international, and firms may develop connections with customers, suppliers and collaborators beyond the cluster if they offer more advanced capabilities, lower prices or access to larger markets (Amin & Thrift, 2002; Scott, 2000).”
The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism (2013, background): “Governance has thus consisted of a set of oligopticons—partial vantage points from ﬁxed positions with limited view sheds (Amin and Thrift 2002).”