Alternatives to celebrity in the rescue of the city, a reply to Robert A. Beauregard
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Robert A. Beauregard's assertion that urban affairs is an academic issue has failed to evoke popular concern for the city and may turn academicians into celebrities. In the course of passionate public debates in the 1970s, they had become celebrities. While the academicians can utilize media to revoke interest in urban issues, media may distort the ideas or inculcate new ideas conducive to their interests. A discourse that helps students and activists to treat people as co-citizens and use latest interactive means of telecommunications will contribute to urban progress and urban scholarship.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Affairs
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0735-2166
Year: 1996
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Urban discourse, a reply to Robert A. Beauregard
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Robert A. Beauregard's call for involving academicians in public debates lacks justification as debates of the 1960s failed to project the basic issues of urban problems. Instead of engaging in debates and talk shows, the academicians should view the urban citizens dwelling in the suburbs and dispersed areas of US metropolis as their co-citizens and project the true picture of urban situation. Debates of the '60s contributed to the idea that private market can solve urban woes. However, in reality the private markets failed to resolve the unequal distribution of wealth and income.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Affairs
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0735-2166
Year: 1996
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Civic culture and urban discourse, a rejoinder
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The popular dimension of urban discourse is significant to retain collective academic enterprise in urban studies. Both Robert Warren and Sam Bass Warner fail to address the object of passion and other city issues holistically. While Warner believes that most of the scholarly work is incapable of wielding public influence, Warren associates urban scholars with celebrity status. Warren and Warner are wrong in their assertions that media and hegemonic powers rule the public debate. Intellectuals should encourage broad and democratic debates about urban problems.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Affairs
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0735-2166
Year: 1996
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