Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New York

Abstract

The first chapters in this volume provide exhaustive evidence, as well as arguments, illustrating the profound restructuring that New York City has been undergoing — at various scales — over the past two decades. They also point to the agencies involved and the conflicts arising from this process. Yet at the same time, their exclusive focus on New York gives the impression that ‘the city’ in general is in fact New York City. In assessing the relevance of such analyses of New York for the understanding of other cities in the world, I am interested in addressing two questions. How representative is New York of cities in the so-called postcolonial periphery? And, in regard to the first four chapters on New York, what is the relationship between the urban processes discussed, the agencies involved, and transformations in the city as a whole?

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