Emerging Urban Spaces: A Planetary Perspective

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This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects – namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative ‘Southern’ post-colonial and post-structuralist projects. Its main objective is to combine different urban knowledge to support and inspire an integrative research approach and a conceptual vocabulary which allows understanding the complex characteristics of diverse emerging urban spaces. Drawing on in-depth case study material from across the world, the different chapters in this volume disentangle planetary urbanization and apply it as a research framework to the context-specific challenges faced by many `ordinary' urban settings. In addition, through their focus on both Northern- and Southern urban spaces, this edited collection creates a truly global perspective on crucial practice-relevant topics such as the co-production of urban spaces, the ‘right to diversity’ and the ‘right to the urban’ in particular local settings. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Philipp Horn, Ana Claudia Cardoso, Paola Alfaro d’Alençon)....Pages 1-19 The Ecumenical ‘Right to the City’: Urban Commons and Intersectional Enclosures in Athens and Istanbul (Charalampos Tsavdaroglou)....Pages 21-41 Emerging Urban Indigenous Spaces in Bolivia: A Combined Planetary and Postcolonial Perspective (Philipp Horn)....Pages 43-64 The Urban as a Concrete Utopia? Co-production and Local Governance in Distinct Urban Geographies: Transnational Learning from Chile and Germany (Paola Alfaro d’Alençon, Ernesto López Morales)....Pages 65-85 Continuity and Change in Decentralist Urbanisation: Exploring the Critical Potential of Contemporary Urban Theory Through the London Docklands Development Corporation (David Mountain)....Pages 87-107 Comparing at What Scale? The Challenge for Comparative Urbanism in Central Asia (Elena Trubina)....Pages 109-127 Growth of Tourism Urbanisation and Implications for the Transformation of Jamaica’s Rural Hinterlands (Sheere Brooks)....Pages 129-148 Formats of Extended Urbanisation in Ocean Space (Nancy Couling)....Pages 149-176 Urban Tropical Forest: Where Nature and Human Settlements Are Assets for Overcoming Dependency, but How Can Urbanisation Theories Identify These Potentials? (Ana Claudia Cardoso, Harley Silva, Ana Carolina Melo, Danilo Araújo)....Pages 177-199 Urbanisation, Sustainability and Development: Contemporary Complexities and Diversities in the Production of Urban Space (Roberto Luís Monte-Mór)....Pages 201-215 Back Matter ....Pages 217-219