The urbanism of exception the dynamics of global city building in the twenty-first century
This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of t...
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Global urbanism at the start of the 21st century
- The shape of cities to come: distended urban form as the template for global urbanism
- Spatial restructuring on a global scale: enclave urbanism and the fragmentation of urban space
- Cities as an assemblage of enclaves: realizing the expectations of late modernity
- Autonomous zones and the eclipse of territorial sovereignty
- Typologies of zones
- Hybrid zones and the breakdown of conventional modalities of urban governance
- Urbanism as exception