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Abstract
This commentary reflects on the ways that the issues raised by Edward Soja in his book Postmetropolis (2000) resonate (or do not) today. It entails a re-examination of Soja's six discourses on the postmetropolis in light of the highly significant events of the past decade that have changed the ways we think about and analyze cities. It is suggested that the crises and instabilities of the 2000s have humbled analyses, bringing greater attention to the everyday; to different, often smaller scales of analysis; to ordinary cities; to provisional politics; and to the rootedness of the urban within the natural.