Emerging Urban Spaces (eBook)

A Planetary Perspective

Philipp Horn, Paola Alfaro d'Alencon, Ana Claudia Duarte Cardoso (Herausgeber)

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2018
XII, 219 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-57816-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects - namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative 'Southern' post-colonial and post-structuralist projects. Its main objective is to combine different urban knowledge to support and inspire an integrative research approach and a conceptual vocabulary which allows understanding the complex characteristics of diverse emerging urban spaces.

Drawing on in-depth case study material from across the world, the different chapters in this volume disentangle planetary urbanization and apply it as a research framework to the context-specific challenges faced by many `ordinary' urban settings. In addition, through their focus on both Northern- and Southern urban spaces, this edited collection creates a truly global perspective on crucial practice-relevant topics such as the co-production of urban spaces, the 'right to diversity' and the 'right to the urban' in particular local settings.

Inhalt

Introduction.- The Ecumenical “right to the city”: Urban Commons and Intersectional Enclosures in Athens and Istanbul.- Emerging Urban Indigenous Spaces in Bolivia: a Combined Planetary and Postcolonial Perspective.- The Urban as a “concrete utopia”? Co-production and Local Governance in Distinct Urban Geographies. Transnational Learning From Chile and Germany.- Continuity and Change in Decentralist Urbanisation: Exploring the Critical Potential of Contemporary Urban Theory Through the London Docklands Development Corporation.- Comparing at what Scale? The Challenge for Comparative Urbanism in Central Asia.- Growth of Tourism Urbanisation and Implications for the Transformation of Jamaica’s Rural Hinterlands.- Formats of Extended Urbanisation in Ocean Space.-Urban Tropical Forest: Where Nature and Human Settlements are Assets for Overcoming Dependency, but how can Urban Theory Identify these Potentials?.- Urbanisation, Sustainability, Development: Contemporary Complexities and Diversities in the Production of Urban Space.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Urban Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: The Urban Book Series
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 219 p. 20 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Emergent Urban Spaces • Inclusive Urban Development • Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning • ordinary cities • Planetary Urbanisation • Right to the City • Urban theory
• ISBN-10: 3-319-57816-2 / 3319578162
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-57816-3 / 9783319578163