Emerging Urban Spaces A Planetary Perspective

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 o...

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Other Authors: Horn, Philipp (Editor), Alfaro d'Alencon, Paola (Editor), Duarte Cardoso, Ana Claudia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:The Urban Book Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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