Emerging Urban Spaces A Planetary Perspective

Emerging Urban Spaces A Planetary Perspective / edited by Philipp Horn, Paola Alfaro d'Alencon, Ana Claudia Duarte Cardoso.

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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Horn, Philipp (Editor), Alfaro d'Alencon, Paola (Editor), Duarte Cardoso, Ana Claudia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:The Urban Book Series,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Regional planning.
Urban planning.
Human geography.
Sociology, Urban.
Economic development.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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.

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