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Part I: Reformatting Comparison

Chapter 1: Ways of Knowing the Global Urban 25

Chapter 2 The Limits of Comparative Methodologies in Urban Studies

Chapter 3 Comparative Urbanism in the Archives: Thinking with Variety, Thinking with Connections

Chapter 4 Thinking Cities through Elsewhere: Reformatting Comparison

Part II: Genetic Comparisons

Chapter 5: Connections

Chapter 6: Relations

Part III: Generative Comparisons

Chapter 7: Generating Concepts

Chapter 8: Composing Comparisons

Chapter 9: Conversations

Part IV: Thinking from the Urban as Distinctive

Chapter 10: Territories

Chapter 11: Into the Territory, or, the Urban as Idea