Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles

The book explores the effects of extended urbanization in eight world regions, offering a redefinition of the terms "city," "urban," and "urbanization" and outlining new urban agendas to address planetary challenges. It decenters the perspective on the urban, highlights urban struggle, and transcends rural-urban and north-south divides.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 408 pages
Publication date: 24 October 2023
Publisher: Birkhauser

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

Weight: 898g
Dimension: 173 x 241 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783035622973