The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the
massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an
'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide
is happening at the margins of cities. This book is about
the process that creates the global urban periphery –
suburbanization – and the ways of life – suburbanisms – we
encounter there. Richly detailed with examples from around the
world, the book argues that suburbanization is a global process and
part of the extended urbanization of the planet. This
includes the gated communities of elites, the squatter settlements
of the poor, and many built forms and ways of life in-between. The
reality of life in the urban century is suburban: most of the
earth's future 10 billion inhabitants will not live in conventional
cities but in suburban constellations of one kind or
another. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's demand not to give up
urban theory when the city in its classical form disappears, this
book is a challenge to urban thought more generally as it invites
the reader to reconsider the city from the outside in.
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