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

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 Te...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : JOVIS Verlag GmbH, , [2015]
©2013
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (576 p.) :; zahlr. farb. Abb.
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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