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Implosions /Explosions - Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Paperback)
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A rethinking of the Henri Lefebvre's hypothesis that society has
been completely urbanised. "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 urbanisation of
society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift
from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of the
urbanisation processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary
texts on the 'urbanisation 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 urbanisation across places, regions,
territories, continents and oceans up to the planetary scale. Neil
Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard Graduate School
of Design (GSD). His writing and teaching focus on the theoretical,
conceptual, methodological and cartographic dimensions of urban
questions. His work builds upon, and seeks to extend, the fields of
critical urban and regional studies, comparative geopolitical
economy and radical sociospatial theory. Major research foci
include processes of urban and regional restructuring and uneven
spatial development; the generalisation of capitalist urbanisation;
the problem of spatial visualisation in urban studies; and
processes of state spatial restructuring, with particular reference
to the remaking of urban governance configurations under
neoliberalising capitalism. In 2014, Brenner was selected as a
Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (www.highlycited.com).
Based on Web of Science data, his publications were ranked among
the top 1% most cited globally in the general social sciences
between 2002 and 2012.
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/neil-brenner/
General
Imprint: |
Jovis Verlag Gmbh
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Country of origin: |
Germany |
Release date: |
December 2013 |
First published: |
April 2014 |
Editors: |
Neil Brenner
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Dimensions: |
240 x 165 x 44mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
576 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-86859-317-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
3-86859-317-9 |
Barcode: |
9783868593174 |
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