Abstract

Recent debates in urban theory have centred on the problem of whether universal concepts can have applications to particular places. These debates could benefit from more serious attention to how urban thought involves styles of analogical reasoning closer in spirit to casuistry than to explanatory theory. The difficult status of ‘the case’ in urban studies is explored through a consideration of different types of universality in this field, leading to a re-consideration of ideas of experimentalism and wicked problems. Further attention should be given to the multiple styles of reasoning through which urban knowledge is produced and circulated.

中文翻译：

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城市理论的奇怪案例

摘要

城市理论最近的争论集中在普遍概念是否可以在特定地方应用的问题上。这些辩论可能得益于对城市思想如何涉及类推推理方式的更加认真的关注，这些类推推理方式在精神上更接近于科索斯主义而不是解释性理论。通过研究该领域不同类型的普遍性，探索了“案例”在城市研究中的困境，从而导致对实验主义和邪恶问题的观念的重新思​​考。应进一步关注产生和传播城市知识的多种推理方式。