Urban geography II: Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism
Abstract
Crisis-thinking has become increasingly central to critical urban thought and practice. In this report, I reflect on what the proliferation of ‘crisis-thinking’ might do to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised. What might it enable, and what might it make us less able to see and do? What might the growth of crisis-thinking, and in particular of poly crisis-thinking, do to how we see urban possibility? I close with a reflection on what it might mean to imagine a critical urbanism without crisis-thinking.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Urban Planning and Governance
Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
Geographies of human-animal interactions
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Progress in Human Geography
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 734-747
- Publication date
- 20 March 2026
- Language
- EN