Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison

Published by Birkhäuser 2023

Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison

Edited by: Christian Schmid and Monika Streule

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035623017

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About this book

Cartography as an instrument for the analysis of urbanisation processes

The speed, scale and scope of urbanisation have increased dramatically in recent decades. To decipher the rapidly changing urban territories across the planet, we need a radical shift in the analytical perspective on urbanisation.

In this book, a transdisciplinary international research team presents an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation processes through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Based on a novel cartography and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, this book systematically analyses the diversity of responses to urgent contemporary urban challenges. It proposes a series of new concepts that allow us to assess the practical consequences of different urban strategies in everyday life.

Essential book on urbanism
New evaluation models for urbanisation processes
Comprehensive analyses and illustrations of the urban patterns of international metropolises
Comparison of urbanisation processes in eight metropolises around the world

Author / Editor information

Editors

Christian Schmid is an urban researcher, geographer and sociologist, Professor of Sociology, Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. His scientific work is on planetary urbanisation, comparative urban analysis and theories of urbanisation and of space. He wrote an encompassing reconstruction of Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space and is a member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA).

Monika Streule is an urban researcher at the intersection of social anthropology, geography and sociology. She has extensively published on urban extractivism, socioterritorial struggles and experimental methodologies, particularly with reference to postcolonial and decolonial perspectives. Currently, she is a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Contributing authors

Naomi Hanakata, Singapore; Ozan Karaman, Paris; Anne Kockelkorn, Ghent; Lindsay Sawyer, Sheffield; Christian Schmid, Zurich; Monika Streule, London and Mexico City; Kit Ping Wong, Osaka

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
PART I: DECENTRING URBAN RESEARCH: THEORY, PROCEDURE, METHODOLOGY
Chapter 1: URBANISATION PROCESSES: AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL REORIENTATION Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2: THEORY BUILDING THROUGH COMPARATIVE STRATEGIES Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3: CREATING COMPARATIVE MOMENTS: AN EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY Monika Streule Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 4: NEW CONCEPTS OF URBANISATION PROCESSES: AN OVERVIEW Christian Schmid, Ozan Karaman, Naomi Hanakata, Pascal Kallenberger, Anne Kockelkorn, Lindsay Sawyer, Monika Streule and Kit Ping Wong Publicly Available Download PDF	49
PART II: PATTERNS AND PATHWAYS OF URBANISATION
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 5: TOKYO: FRAMING THE METROPOLITAN COMPLEX Naomi Hanakata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Chapter 6: HONG KONG, SHENZHEN AND DONGGUAN: CROSS-BORDER URBANISATION Kit Ping Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Chapter 7: ISTANBUL: FROM GECEKONDU TO ‘CRAZY’ PROJECTS Ozan Karaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Chapter 8: LAGOS: A SOUTHERN PARADIGM OF URBANISATION Lindsay Sawyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter 9: PARIS: BETWEEN CENTRE AND PERIPHERY Christian Schmid, Anne Kockelkorn and Lara Belkind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 10: MEXICO CITY: CHANGING PARADIGMS OF URBANISATION Monika Streule Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 11: LOS ANGELES: AN ORDINARY METROPOLIS Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
PART III: TOWARDS A NEW VOCABULARY OF URBANISATION PROCESSES
Chapter 12: POPULAR URBANISATION: CONCEPTUALISING URBANISATION PROCESSES BEYOND INFORMALITY Monika Streule, Ozan Karaman, Lindsay Sawyer and Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter 13: PLOT BY PLOT: PLOTTING URBANISM AS AN ORDINARY PROCESS OF URBANISATION Ozan Karaman, Lindsay Sawyer, Christian Schmid and Kit Ping Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Chapter 14: BYPASS URBANISM: RE-ORDERING CENTRE–PERIPHERY RELATIONS Lindsay Sawyer, Christian Schmid, Monika Streule and Pascal Kallenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Chapter 15: MULTILAYERED PATCHWORK URBANISATION: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE URBAN PERIPHERY Christian Schmid, Naomi Hanakata, Anne Kockelkorn and Kit Ping Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Chapter 16: MASS HOUSING URBANISATION: STATE STRATEGIES AND PERIPHERALISATION Anne Kockelkorn, Christian Schmid, Monika Streule and Kit Ping Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Chapter 17: INCORPORATION OF DIFFERENCES: THE COMMODIFICATION OF URBAN VALUE Naomi Hanakata, Christian Schmid, Monika Streule and Ozan Karaman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
PART IV: CONCLUSION
Chapter 18: PARADIGMS OF URBANISATION: A COMPARATIVE OUTLOOK Christian Schmid and Monika Streule Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
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