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Urban Policy Mobilities Research: Introduction to a Debate
Author(s) -
Baker Tom,
Temenos Cristina
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of urban and regional research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1468-2427
pISSN - 0309-1317
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2427.12252
Subject(s) - mobilities , urban policy , sociology , regional science , research policy , political science , epistemology , economic geography , social science , urban planning , public administration , economics , engineering , civil engineering , philosophy
An increasing number of scholars are focusing attention on the circulation of urban policies and the concept of ‘policy mobilities’. This collection of short commentaries identifies emerging areas of interest and contention for urban policy mobilities researchers. Exploring issues from conceptual dualisms and topological thinking to interdisciplinarity and slow methodologies, the commentaries offer refinements and suggest new pathways for urban policy mobilities research in the future.