![]() Actually it is not just White alone that I am setting among the urbanists I use him, as one of the foremost contemporary exponents of what is broadly defined as discourse analysis, as a synecdoche for a whole interpretive tradition that problematizes the relationship between what we see and what we write. I have done so, not only to see feathers fly, but because I believe that the type of interpretive framework which he has so brilliantly applied to the writing of history can also be made to shed light on the writing of the city (although not without problematic consequences which I will address below). ![]() It is I, therefore, and not he, who has set him among the urbanists - like a cat amongst the pigeons. As Presidential Professor of Historical Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, cities are not his problem, neither intellectually nor experientially. This should come as no surprise since to my knowledge Professor White has never written about nor perhaps even given much thought to the problem of cities. It is entirely possible that many of the urbanists who read this book will be unfamiliar with the work of Hayden White. ![]()
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