COMMUNITY AS URBAN PRACTICE

Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on exis ting theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland ar gues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, socia l groups or neighbours. She draws attention to the nondurable, fluid encounters that constitute community, theorizing communities a s shared ...[Read more]