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Constructing comparisons: Reflecting on the experimental nature of new comparative tactics

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In this commentary I reflect on experimental approaches to comparative urbanism emerging in recent papers. Drawing on the methodological approaches employed in the special issue on Comparative Methods for Global Urban Studies, I highlight the way in which a more reactive and responsive approach – to both pre-existing conditions and understandings of urban development, as well as realities faced during fieldwork and analysis – have elucidated new ways of thinking with and through different cities to productively push forward the comparative urbanism agenda. In doing so I build on the long history of comparative approaches in urban studies to argue that experimenting with how we put new places into existing conversations, within a particular project or beyond, can be hugely powerful in transforming the way in which comparison is conducted in urban studies and geography.

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  • Frances Brill, 2022. "Constructing comparisons: Reflecting on the experimental nature of new comparative tactics," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 59(8), pages 1754-1759, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:59:y:2022:i:8:p:1754-1759
    DOI: 10.1177/00420980221089590
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    1. Jennifer Robinson, 2022. "Introduction: Generating concepts of ‘the urban’ through comparative practice," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 59(8), pages 1521-1535, June.

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