{"product_id":"high-stakes-high-hopes-urban-theorizing-in-partnership-paperback","title":"High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSophie Oldfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Stakes, High Hopes \u003c\/i\u003etracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa.An argument for collaborative urbanism, this book reflects on what was at stake in the partnership and its creative, and at times, conflictive, evolution. \u003ci\u003eHigh Stakes, High Hopes \u003c\/i\u003eexplores what changed in learning when teaching and assessment occurred inuniversity classrooms, township streets, and ordinary people's households.Oldfield explores how research and assessment were reshaped when framed in neighbourhood questions and commitments, and what was reoriented in urban theorizing when community activism and township struggles were recognized as sites of valid knowledge-making. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOldfield traces the multiple personal and political relationships at play, exploring the shifting patterns of power in this productive, yet always negotiated, collaboration. This innovative methodologyreveals the ways in which activists, residents, students, and the author experienced and reworked the differences between them. \u003ci\u003eHigh Stakes, High Hopes\u003c\/i\u003eshares forms of practice, grounded in teaching, to train a next generation of urbanists to engage the city embedded in multiple publics and politics across the city. The book builds upon an archive of alternative kinds of urban knowledges, experiments which work to inspire more varied forms of urban theorizing.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOPHIE OLDFIELD is a professor in City and Regional Planning at Cornell University and in Environmental and Geographical Science at University of Cape Town. She has authored and coedited more than ten books, including \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52631838032179,"sku":"9780820365015","price":45.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Gt7Lae7FQm9780820365015.webp?v=1762192386","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/high-stakes-high-hopes-urban-theorizing-in-partnership-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}