Abstract

In this article, I reflect on how urban scholars negotiate between the general and the particular not by turning to sampling strategies or statistical techniques but by situating the city in a favourable rhetorical space. In effect, they attempt to close the gap theoretically. My substantive and specific focus is urban scholarship that addresses individual cities and that frames that city either as a laboratory in which to do urban research, a lens through which to see other cities, or as the archetype for a school of urban studies. I concentrate mainly on the work of US urban scholars.

中文翻译：

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各个城市重要吗？谈判具体

摘要

在本文中，我反思了城市学者如何在一般与特殊群体之间进行谈判，而不是通过抽样策略或统计技术，而是通过将城市置于有利的修辞空间中来进行的。实际上，他们试图从理论上弥合差距。我的实质性和具体重点是城市奖学金，该奖学金针对的是单个城市，并且将该城市构造为进行城市研究的实验室，观察其他城市的镜头，或者作为城市研究学校的原型。我主要专注于美国城市学者的工作。