Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 3868593179 ISBN 13: 9783868593174

Verlag: JOVIS, 2013

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“I’ll begin with the following hypothesis: society has been completely urbanized.” –Henri Lefebvre, La révolution urbaine (1970) 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.

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NEIL BRENNER, editor, is Professor of Urban Theory and Director of the Urban Theory Lab (UTL) at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. His research focuses on urbanization and territorial regulation under contemporary capitalism, as well as on questions of concept formation, method, spatial representation and critique in urban studies.

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• Verlag: JOVIS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3868593179
• ISBN 13: 9783868593174
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
• Herausgeber: Brenner Neil
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