Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison /

Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison / / ed. by Christian Schmid, Monika Streule.

Cartography as an instrument for the analysis of urbanisation processes The speed, scale and scope of urbanisation have increased dramatically in recent decades. To decipher the rapidly changing urban territories across the planet, we need a radical shift in the analytical perspective on urbanisatio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Belkind, Lara,
Hanakata, Naomi,
Kallenberger, Pascal,
Karaman, Ozan,
Kockelkorn, Anne,
Sawyer, Lindsay,
Schmid, Christian,
Streule, Monika,
Wong, Kit Ping,
HerausgeberIn:
Schmid, Christian,
Streule, Monika,
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (396 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • PREFACE
  • PART I: DECENTRING URBAN RESEARCH: THEORY, PROCEDURE, METHODOLOGY
  • Chapter 1: URBANISATION PROCESSES: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL REORIENTATION
  • Chapter 2: THEORY BUILDING THROUGH COMPARATIVE STRATEGIES
  • Chapter 3: CREATING COMPARATIVE MOMENTS: AN EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY
  • Chapter 4: NEW CONCEPTS OF URBANISATION PROCESSES: AN OVERVIEW
  • PART II: PATTERNS AND PATHWAYS OF URBANISATION
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 5: TOKYO: FRAMING THE METROPOLITAN COMPLEX
  • Chapter 6: HONG KONG, SHENZHEN AND DONGGUAN: CROSS-BORDER URBANISATION
  • Chapter 7: ISTANBUL: FROM GECEKONDU TO ‘CRAZY’ PROJECTS
  • Chapter 8: LAGOS: A SOUTHERN PARADIGM OF URBANISATION
  • Chapter 9: PARIS: BETWEEN CENTRE AND PERIPHERY
  • Chapter 10: MEXICO CITY: CHANGING PARADIGMS OF URBANISATION
  • Chapter 11: LOS ANGELES: AN ORDINARY METROPOLIS
  • PART III: TOWARDS A NEW VOCABULARY OF URBANISATION PROCESSES
  • Chapter 12: POPULAR URBANISATION: CONCEPTUALISING URBANISATION PROCESSES BEYOND INFORMALITY
  • Chapter 13: PLOT BY PLOT: PLOTTING URBANISM AS AN ORDINARY PROCESS OF URBANISATION
  • Chapter 14: BYPASS URBANISM: RE-ORDERING CENTRE–PERIPHERY RELATIONS
  • Chapter 15: MULTILAYERED PATCHWORK URBANISATION: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE URBAN PERIPHERY
  • Chapter 16: MASS HOUSING URBANISATION: STATE STRATEGIES AND PERIPHERALISATION
  • Chapter 17: INCORPORATION OF DIFFERENCES: THE COMMODIFICATION OF URBAN VALUE
  • PART IV: CONCLUSION
  • Chapter 18: PARADIGMS OF URBANISATION: A COMPARATIVE OUTLOOK
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter Sources
  • Map Sources
  • Photo Credits
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements

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