ABSTRACT
What inspires a conversation about critical urbanism? For some, it is a project of overt engagement and celebration of the breadth and complexities of cities of the global south, the myriad realities that shape cities and makes the task of ‘thinking cities’ innovative and exciting today. For others, it is a challenge to develop urban knowledge and theory that can travel and engage complexity, across borders and boundaries, producing new and better ways of knowing. Certainly, critical approaches to southern urbanism pose a challenge to do things differently, to ‘dis-assemble’ and ‘re-assemble’ our notions and practice.
