Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles

Published by Birkhäuser 2023

Extended Urbanisation

Tracing Planetary Struggles

Edited by: Christian Schmid and Milica Topalovic

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035623031

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Extended methods of analysis for urbanisation processes illustrated in eight world regions.

Urbanisation processes are unfolding far beyond the realm of agglomerations, profoundly transforming agrarian areas, rain forests, deserts and oceans. Inextricably bound to the earth’s ecologies, these developments are causing manifold planetary crises which require urgent scrutiny and call for new conceptions and cartographies of the urban beyond-the-city.

Through detailed analysis and fieldwork captured in text, photographs and hand-drawn maps, the book portrays the effects of extended urbanisation in eight world regions. It offers a redefinition of the very notions of the “city”, “urban” and “urbanisation” and outlines new urban agendas developed to address planetary challenges.

This book decenters the perspective on the urban, foregrounds urban struggle, and transcends rural-urban and north-south divides.

Fundamental book for urbanism studies

Redefinition of the terms “city”, “urban” and “urbanisation”

Analysis of urbanisation processes in eight world regions

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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).

Milica Topalovic is an architect and Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Her work addresses territories beyond-the-city and the transformation processes they are exposed to through the movement of capital, social restructuring, and environmental change. She has studied remote regions, resource hinterlands, and countrysides in an effort to decentre and ecologise architectural approaches to the city, the urban, and urbanisation.

Contributing authors

Nitin Bathla, Zurich; Elisa T. Bertuzzo, Berlin; Rodrigo Castriota, Belo Horizonte; Nancy Couling, Lausanne; Alice Hertzog, Zurich; Nikos Katsikis, Delft; Metaxia Markaki, Zurich; Christian Schmid, Zurich; Abdou Maliq Simone, Sheffield; Milica Topalović, Zurich; Kit Ping Wong, Hong Kong

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
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Introduction Territories of Extended Urbanisation. Planetary Struggles and Agendas for Action Christian Schmid and Milica Topalović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Extended Urbanisation. A Framework for Analysis Christian Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
The Mine, the City, and the Encampment. Contesting Extractivism in Eastern Amazonia Rodrigo Castriota Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Horizontal Factory. The Operationalisation of the US Corn and Soy Belt Nikos Katsikis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Losing Sea. Abstraction and the End of the Commons in the North Sea Nancy Couling Publicly Available Download PDF	159
Expropriation and Extended Citizenship. The Periphalisation of Arcadia Metaxia Markaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Urbanisation through Movement. The Lagos-Abidjan Corridor Alice Hertzog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Translocalisation and the Production of Space. West Bengal’s Ex-Centric Territories Elisa T. Bertuzzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
The Territory and the State. The Urbanisation of Dongguan Kit Ping Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
The Highway Revolution. Enclosure and State Space in India Nitin Bathla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Coda When Extended Urbanisation Becomes Extensive Urbanisation AbdouMaliq Simone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Pages
- Main content: 408
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 200
Keywords: urbanisation processes; urbanization processes; agglomerations; earth’s ecologies; planetary crises; climate crisis; critical cartographies; urbanisation beyond-the-city; extended urbanisation; rural-urban; urban struggle; urban design; planetary urbanisation; radical urbanism; urban territories; transforming landscapes; Milica Topalovic; Christian Schmid

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Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783035623031

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Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783035622973