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Encountering the City Urban Encounters from Accra to New York

Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing together a range of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of economic regulation, security and suspicion, to more-than-human geographies, soundscapes and spiritual experience, Encountering the City argues for a more nuanced understanding of how the concept of ''encounter'' is used. This interdisciplinary collection thus provides an insight into how scholars'' writing on and in the city mobilise, theorise and challenge the concept of encounter through empirical cases