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Das Verhältnis zwischen der fast schon nachlässigen umgangssprachlichen wie auch akademischen Verwendung des Begriffs "das Urbane" – wir alle wissen, wo es liegt – und der Suche nach spezifischeren – oder gar wissenschaftlichen – Definitionen ist ein schwieriges. Auf den ersten Blick scheint es eine recht leichte Aufgabe, das Urbane der urbanen Politik zu identifizieren. Es ist ganz einfach die Politik, die in städtischen Gebieten stattfindet, welche in der Praxis üblicherweise durch die territorialen Grenzen definiert sind, in denen sich der lokale Staat konstituiert. ; There is an uneasy relationship between the almost careless way in which the urban is often mobilised in popular and academic speech – we all know where it is - and the search for more specific – even scientific – definitions. At first sight, identifying the urban of urban politics seems a relatively easy task. It is simply the politics that takes place in urban areas, which in practice are usually defined through the territorial boundaries around which local states are constituted.

AbstractThe question of comparison is one that haunts contemporary urban and regional studies—the need for it is taken for granted, but what it is, how to do it and what it can teach us remain matters of contention. In 2016 Kevin Cox published a book that brought some of these issues to the fore, challenging the ways in which US models have tended to dominate and (with the help of reflections on the experience of Western Europe) highlighting the extent of what he called the American exception. In this intervention four authors from different perspectives and located in different geographies deliver not a review or critique of the text but a series of responses, riffing off Cox to generate ways of thinking about comparison as well as offering alternative ways of approaching some of the issues with which he grapples, reflecting on particular national experiences while setting out to place them comparatively, and drawing wider conclusions while posing new questions, to which Kevin Cox in turn responds.