Beyond the Megacity : : New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America / / ed. by Nadine Reis, Michael Lukas.
Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of "peripheral urbanization" as a way to integrate the theoretica...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Global Suburbanisms
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 31 b&w illustrations, 11 b7w maps,1 b&w figure, 8 b&w tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
- PART 1 Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
- 1 Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South
- 2 Urban Community and Resistance
- 3 Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America
- PART 2 Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism
- 4 Large-Scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in the Production of Urban Space in the Mexico City Megaregion
- 5 Peri-urban Megaprojects in Santiago de Chile: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle- Class Dwellers
- 6 Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery
- PART 3 Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins
- 7 The Self-Built City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima’s Hybrid Peripheries
- 8 Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte
- 9 Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-urban Bolivia
- 10 Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas
- PART 4 Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes
- 11 Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador
- 12 Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile
- 13 Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras: Unveiling Abstract Space in Yucatán, Mexico
- 14 Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil
- 15 The Urbanization of Mexico’s Countryside: A Socio-political Approach to Spatial Transformation
- Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theo
- Contributors
- Index