Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization

Published by JOVIS 2013

Implosions /Explosions

Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization

Edited by: Neil Brenner

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868598933

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In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. It assembles a series of analytical and cartographic interventions that supersede inherited spatial ontologies (urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature) in order to investigate the uneven implosions and explosions of capitalist urbanization across places, regions, territories, continents and oceans up to the planetary scale.

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Neil Brenner (eds.)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	10
1 Introduction: Urban Theory Without an Outside Neil Brenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
ONE FOUNDATIONS— THE URBANIZATION QUESTION
2 From the City to Urban Society Henri Lefebvre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3 Cities or Urbanization? David Harvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4 Networks, Borders, Differences: Towards a Theory of the Urban Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
TWO COMPLETE URBANIZATION— EXPERIENCE, SITE, PROCESS
5 Where Does the City End? Matthew Gandy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
6 Traveling Warrior and Complete Urbanization in Switzerland: Landscape as Lived Space Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
7 Is the Matterhorn City? Marcel Meili Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
8 Extended Urbanization and Settlement Patterns in Brazil: An Environmental Approach Roberto Luís Monte-Mór Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
9 The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia: Expanding a Hypothesis Terry G. McGee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
THREE PLANETARY URBANIZATION— OPENINGS
10 The Urbanization of the World Edward W. Soja and J. Miguel Kanai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
11 Planetary Urbanization Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
12 The Urban Question Under Planetary Urbanization Andy Merrifield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
13 Theses on Urbanization Neil Brenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
14 Patterns and Pathways of Global Urbanization: Towards Comparative Analysis Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
15 The Country and The City in the Urban Revolution Kanishka Goonewardena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Four Historical geographies of urbanization
16 Urbs in Rure: Historical Enclosure and the Extended Urbanization of the Countryside Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
17 What is the Urban in the Contemporary World? Roberto Luís Monte-Mór Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
18 The Urbanization of Switzerland Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
19 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era Edward W. Soja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
20 Worldwide Urbanization and Neocolonial Fractures: Insights From the Literary World Stefan Kipfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Five Urban studies and urban ideologies
21 The “Urban Age” in Question Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
22 What Role For Social Science in the “Urban Age”? Brendan Gleeson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
23 City as Ideology David Wachsmuth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
24 Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism Hillary Angelo and David Wachsmuth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
25 Whither Urban Studies? Andy Merrifield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	386
SIX Visualizations— ideologies and experiments
26 A Typology of Urban Switzerland Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
27 Is the Mediterranean Urban? Neil Brenner and Nikos Katsikis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	428
28 Visualizing an Urbanized Planet— Materials Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460
SEVEN Political strate gies, struggles and horizons
29 Two Approaches to “World Management”: C. A. Doxiadis and R. B. Fuller Nikos Katsikis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
30 City Becoming World: Nancy, Lefebvre and the Global-Urban Imagination David J. Madden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
31 The Right to the City and Beyond: Notes on a Lefebvrian Reconceptualization Andy Merrifield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
32 The Hypertrophic City Versus the Planet of Fields Max Ajl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
33 Becoming Urban: On Whose Terms? John Friedmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	551
Coda
34 Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis Henri Lefebvre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	562
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	572
Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: JOVIS
Audience: Urbanisten; Soziologen; Stadtplaner; Regionalplaner; Architekten; Ökonomen
Pages
- Main content: 576
Illustrations
- Other: zahlr. farb. Abb.
Keywords: Architektur; Soziologie; Urbanismus; Ökonomie

eBook

Published: August 30, 2015
ISBN: 9783868598933

Hardcover

Published: December 17, 2013
ISBN: 9783868593174