Implosions /Explosions : : Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization / / ed. by Neil Brenner.

• MitwirkendeR: Ajl, Max,; Angelo, Hillary,; Brenner, Neil,; Friedmann, John,; Gandy, Matthew,; Gleeson, Brendan,; Goonewardena, Kanishka,; Harvey, David,; Kanai, J. Miguel,; Katsikis, Nikos,; Kipfer, Stefan,; Lefebvre, Henri,; Madden, David J.,; McGee, Terry G.,; Meili, Marcel,; Merrifield, Andy,; Monte-Mór, Roberto Luís,; Schmid, Christian,; Sevilla-Buitrago, Álvaro,; Soja, Edward W.,; Wachsmuth, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Brenner, Neil ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : JOVIS Verlag GmbH, , [2015]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.) :; zahlr. farb. Abb.

1970 formulierte Henri Lefebvre seine radikale These der vollkommenen Urbanisierung der Gesellschaft, eine Entwicklung, die seiner Meinung nach den radikalen Umschwung von einer Analyse der Stadtformen zur Untersuchung von Urbanisierungsprozessen erforderte.Indem es klassische und zeitgenössische Texte zur “Urbanisierungsfrage” zusammenführt, untersucht dieses Buch verschiedene theoretische, erkenntnistheoretische, methodologische und politische Schlussfolgerungen aus Lefebvres These. Es versammelt eine Reihe von analytischen und kartografischen Interventionen, die traditionelle Raumontologien ablösen (städtisch/ländlich, Stadt/Land, Stadt/Nicht-Stadt, Gesellschaft/Natur), um die heterogenen Implosionen und Explosionen der vom Kapitalismus bestimmten Urbanisierung über Orte, Regionen, Territorien, Kontinente und Ozeane hinweg bis in planetare Größenordnungen hinein zu untersuchen.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1 Introduction: Urban Theory Without an Outside -- ONE FOUNDATIONS— THE URBANIZATION QUESTION -- 2 From the City to Urban Society -- 3 Cities or Urbanization? -- 4 Networks, Borders, Differences: Towards a Theory of the Urban -- TWO COMPLETE URBANIZATION— EXPERIENCE, SITE, PROCESS -- 5 Where Does the City End? -- 6 Traveling Warrior and Complete Urbanization in Switzerland: Landscape as Lived Space -- 7 Is the Matterhorn City? -- 8 Extended Urbanization and Settlement Patterns in Brazil: An Environmental Approach -- 9 The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia: Expanding a Hypothesis -- THREE PLANETARY URBANIZATION— OPENINGS -- 10 The Urbanization of the World -- 11 Planetary Urbanization -- 12 The Urban Question Under Planetary Urbanization -- 13 Theses on Urbanization -- 14 Patterns and Pathways of Global Urbanization: Towards Comparative Analysis -- 15 The Country and The City in the Urban Revolution -- Four Historical geographies of urbanization -- 16 Urbs in Rure: Historical Enclosure and the Extended Urbanization of the Countryside -- 17 What is the Urban in the Contemporary World? -- 18 The Urbanization of Switzerland -- 19 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era -- 20 Worldwide Urbanization and Neocolonial Fractures: Insights From the Literary World -- Five Urban studies and urban ideologies -- 21 The “Urban Age” in Question -- 22 What Role For Social Science in the “Urban Age”? -- 23 City as Ideology -- 24 Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism -- 25 Whither Urban Studies? -- SIX Visualizations— ideologies and experiments -- 26 A Typology of Urban Switzerland -- 27 Is the Mediterranean Urban? -- 28 Visualizing an Urbanized Planet— Materials -- SEVEN Political strate gies, struggles and horizons -- 29 Two Approaches to “World Management”: C. A. Doxiadis and R. B. Fuller -- 30 City Becoming World: Nancy, Lefebvre and the Global-Urban Imagination -- 31 The Right to the City and Beyond: Notes on a Lefebvrian Reconceptualization -- 32 The Hypertrophic City Versus the Planet of Fields -- 33 Becoming Urban: On Whose Terms? -- Coda -- 34 Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis -- Contributors -- Sources