Implosions/explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization

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Preface
Contents
1. Introduction: Urban Theory Without an Outside
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One: Foundations—The Urbanization Question
2. From the City to Urban Society
3. Cities or Urbanization?
Cities Limited and Unlimited
Capitalist Urbanization
Alternative Urbanization
An Adequate Language
Conclusions
Notes
4. Networks, Borders, Differences: Towards a Theory of the Urban
The Thesis of Complete Urbanization
The City in Urban Society
Perceived, Conceived and Lived Space
Urban Space: Networks, Borders, Differences
A New Understanding of the Urban
Notes
Two: Complete Urbanization—Experience, Site, Process
5. Where Does the City End?
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6. Traveling Warrior and Complete Urbanization in Switzerland: Landscape as Lived Space
Town and Country
The Theory of the Production of Space
The Experience of Complete Urbanization
The Bright Lights of the City
Notes
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7. Is the Matterhorn City?
Differences
Networks
Borders
Matterhorn
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8. Extended Urbanization and Settlement Patterns in Brazil: An Environmental Approach
Industrialization and Extended Urbanization
Peripheries: Industries and Frontiers
The Environmental Question
Towards Alternative Metropolitan Ecologies?
Notes
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9. The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia: Expanding a Hypothesis
Definitions and Parameters
The Emergence of the Extended Metropolitan Region in Asia
Conditions and Processes Underlying the Emergence of New Zones of Economic Interaction: Desakota
Questions Concerning the Desakota Regions in Asia
Issues of Policy Formation
Conclusion
Notes
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Three: Planetary Urbanization—Openings
10. The Urbanization of the World
The Urbanization of the World
Globalization, Urbanization, Industrialization
A Planet of Slums
Towards a New Urban Agenda
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11. Planetary Urbanization
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12. The Urban Question Under Planetary Urbanization
Perspective and Prospective
Blind Fields and Ways of Seeing
Concrete Abstractions and Abstract Expressionism
Separation and Encounters: “The Urban Consolidates”
Centrality and Citizenship: Here Comes Everybody?
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13. Theses on Urbanization
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14. Patterns and Pathways of Global Urbanization: Towards Comparative Analysis
Tracing Global Urbanization
Case Studies and Urban Models
New Processes of Urbanization
On Comparative Urban Studies
A Historical Territorial Approach
Three Dimensions of Urbanization
Models of Urbanization
Patterns of Urbanization
Pathways of Urbanization
The Urban as Open Horizon
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15. The Country and The City in the Urban Revolution
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Four: Historical Geographies of Urbanization
16. Urbs in Rure: Historical Enclosure and the Extended Urbanization of the Countryside
Defining Original Extended Urbanization
Open-field System, Common Right and Parliamentary Enclosure
Parliamentary Enclosure as Original Extended Urbanization
Conclusions
Notes
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17. What is the Urban in the Contemporary World?
The Industrial City, the City-Countryside Relationship and the Emergence of the Urban
Contemporary Urbanization: Its Extended Nature and Other Implications
The Extended Urbanization of Contemporary Brazil
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18. The Urbanization of Switzerland
Decentralized Urbanization
A Completely Urbanized Switzerland
New Urban Landscapes
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19. Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era
Metropolitan Urbanization
Regional Urbanization and the Great Density Convergence
Reconstituting the Inner and Outer Cities
Causes and Consequences of Regional Urbanization
Extended Regional Urbanization
The New Regionalism: Some Concluding Remarks
Notes
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20. Worldwide Urbanization and Neocolonial Fractures: Insights From the Literary World
Worldwide Urbanization and Revolution
On Uneven Urbanization
Literature: An Entry Point into Global and Comparative Urbanization
Creolizing the Urban Revolution
Texaco
Conclusion: On the Coeval Character of the Urban
Notes
Five: Urban Studies and Urban Ideologies
21. The “Urban Age” in Question
Background: The Postwar Debate on Urban Population Thresholds
The Theoretical Imperative: Postwar Critiques of Urban Demography
Urban Age as Statistical Artifact
Urban Age as Chaotic Conception
Conclusion: Towards an Investigation of Planetary Urbanization
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22. What Role For Social Science in the “Urban Age”?
Introduction: The Superannuation of Social Science?
The Dimming of Urban Social Science?
The New Urban Enthusiasm and its Discontents
Conclusion: Prospectus for Urban Social Science
Notes
23. City as Ideology
Introduction
New Urban Forms, New Urban Concepts
The Urbanization of Ideology
City and Country: Beyond the Spatial Division of Labor
City as a System: The Urban Lifecycle and the Commuting Zone
City as an Ideal Type: Urban Competitiveness
Conclusion: Who Benefits from the City as Ideology?
Notes
24. Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism
Introduction: The Green City in an Urban World
The History: How Political Ecology Came to the City
Methodological Cityism
A Political Ecology of Urbanization
Conclusion
Notes
25. Whither Urban Studies?
Notes
Six: Visualizations—Ideologies and Experiments
26. A Typology of Urban Switzerland
Conceptions of an Urban Switzerland
The Rediscovery of the Urban
The Helvetian Model of Urbanization
Towards a New Typology of Urbanization: A Methodological Strategy
Metropolitan Regions
Networks of Cities
Quiet Zones
Alpine Resorts
Alpine Fallow Lands
Differences as Urban Potential
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27. Is the Mediterranean Urban?
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28. Visualizing an Urbanized Planet—Materials
Urbanization as a Cartography of Population
Urbanization and the Geography of Economic Activity
World Urbanization and Transportation Infrastructures
Urbanization and Communications Infrastructures
Urbanization as Worldwide Transformation of Land Occupation and Environment
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Seven: Political Strategies, Struggles and Horizons
29. Two Approaches to “World Management”: C. A. Doxiadis and R. B. Fuller
The Institutionalization of the Urbanization Question
Doxiadis, Fuller and the World Society of Ekistics
Doxiadis and Planetary Zoning
Fuller and Planetary Resource Utilization
The Persistence of Technoscientific Ideologies
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30. City Becoming World: Nancy, Lefebvre and the Global-Urban Imagination
Introduction: A Vast Urban Hive
Urbs et orbis
Urban Society and Urban Revolution
Conclusion: The World as an Opening
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31. The Right to the City and Beyond: Notes on a Lefebvrian Reconceptualization
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32. The Hypertrophic City Versus the Planet of Fields
Fossil Capitalism and Energy Regimes
Ecological Imperialism and the Limits to Limitless Growth
End of the World’s Smallholders?
Why Centralize Agriculture?
How to Centralize Agriculture
Conclusion
Notes
33. Becoming Urban: On Whose Terms?
The Language of Urban Research
Peri-urban Zones of Encounter
Whose Imaginary of the Future City?
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Coda
34. Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis
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