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Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South by AbdouMaliq Simone
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s recent debates in urban geography turn to questions of efficiency and development they, perhaps unintentionally, compel us to think about cities in superficial terms.
That is, to what extent are cities experienced as ordered, convenient and accessible to anyone who might pass through them? Urban centers are either underdeveloped or “smart,” world-class or provincial, sophisticated spaces driven by data science and superior planning or neglected and falling behind (Peake, 2016).
Regionally, scholars also conceptualize cities as either the habitable North or uninhabitable South (Roy, 2016).
AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist with particular interest in emerging forms of social and economic intersection across diverse trajectories of change for.
It is this view that AbdouMaliq Simone challenges in Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South. Here, Simone demands scholars pay closer attention to cities as social relations, and positions the urban South as a dynamic space in which people, in one way or another, map their own lives.
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