What is Critical Urbanism ? What is Critical Urbanism ? What is Critical Urbanism ? Urban Research as Pedagogy Kenny Cupers Laura Nkula-Wenz Sophie Oldfield Emilio Distretti Manuel Herz Myriam Perret What is Critical Urbanism ? How, as urbanists, do we learn from the past, from our own modes of practice, from collaborations and confrontations, and from the unabated creativity of urban life? By approaching urban research as pedagogy, this book offers crit- ical pathways to understand, engage with and teach the messy and often contradictory realities of cities. Spanning a productive spec- trum of humanities, social science, and architectural methods, it offers an approach to urban studies that works in and across disci- plines, debates, and cultures of expertise, and across cities south, north, east, and west. “There is a distin art to nurturing urban scholars that appreciates the equal importance of rigour, grounded engagement, criticality and the transformative joys of inquiry into the unknown, unseen and misunderstood. What is Critical Urbanism? tells this story by showing the fruits of thoughul forms of research, praice and pedagogy that seek to start and end with asking beautiful ques- tions. Essential reading for students and teachers of rogue urbanisms.” Printed in Germany ISBN 978-3-03860-282-8 9 783038 602828