2021 Volume 2021 Issue 34 Pages 54-61
The aim of this paper is to examine the strategy of a sociological description of the urban.
The current project-based development in urban restructuring necessitates the coordination of the interests of multiple stakeholders. Urban restructuring practitioners with interactional expertise, such as ‘urban planning consultants,’ discharge pivotal roles in such coordination processes.
Previous sociological scholarship has described the urban as sets of relationships between human-actors such as the residents of a city. However, this paper proposes to describe the urban based on the movements of urban restructuring practitioners as ‘figures’ and the relationships that exist between the institutional foundation of urban politics, the materiality of urban spaces and the allocation of expertise in urban planning as the ‘ground.’
