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Scaling from ‘below’: practices, strategies and urban spaces

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  • Esben Holm Nielsen
  • Kirsten Simonsen

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Over the last 10 years, scholars in human geography have been paying increasing attention to the social construction of scale. Most of this literature takes its starting point in discourses of globalization and the way in which re-definition of scales operates through global political economics. This article is starting from an acknowledgement of the value of the scale debate for the analysis of urban everyday life and urban politics. Briefly, we reconsider the debate, in particular emphasizing the urban question as a scale question. However, we also identify some shortcomings in the debate so far. Even though many authors forward a conception of scales as relational, it is argued, they are often caught in a ‘hierarchical’ view of ‘scaling from above’. This is the background for an attempt to reverse the debate and consider the construction of urban spaces ‘from below’—from the practices and strategies of ‘ordinary’ people and organizations in the city. The interest in this article is how the diversity of everyday practices and politics interact with other scales in the construction of urban space.

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  • Esben Holm Nielsen & Kirsten Simonsen, 2003. "Scaling from ‘below’: practices, strategies and urban spaces," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(8), pages 911-927, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:11:y:2003:i:8:p:911-927
    DOI: 10.1080/0965431032000146123
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    1. Peter Newman, 2007. "Strategic Spatial Planning: Collective Action and Moments of Opportunity," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(10), pages 1371-1383, August.
    2. Honglian Hua & Shangyi Zhou, 2015. "Human-Environment System Boundaries: A Case Study of the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces as a World Heritage Cultural Landscape," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(8), pages 1-23, August.

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