ABSTRACT
Few people set aside ‘time to think’. Indeed, refusing to go out on the grounds that ‘I have to stay in and think about the implications of positive discrimination as a factor in the self-perpetuating cycle of poverty in three developing cities,’ will not assist your street cred. Stick with ‘washing my hair’ or ‘I want a quiet night in with EastEnders’. For most people, the effective stimulus to thinking is conversation and discussion. Being asked: ‘What is your position on postFordism?’ or ‘How do you view the Chicago geographers’ advocacy of urban ecology as affecting our current understanding of interactions in the city?’ can stimulate thoughts you didn’t know you had.
