Critique Of Urbanization

Author : Neil Brenner
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035607956

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Critique of Urbanization by Neil Brenner Pdf

Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner advocates a constant reinvention of the framing categories, methods and assumptions of critical urban theory in relation to the rapidly mutating geographies of capitalist urbanization. Only a theory that is dynamic—which is constantly being transformed in relation to the restlessly evolving social worlds and territorial landscapes it aspires to grasp—can be a genuinely critical theory.

Author : Neil Brenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3035608482

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Critique of Urbanization by Neil Brenner Pdf

Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and thus depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. In so doing, Brenner advocates a constant reinvention of the framing categories, methods and assumptions of critical urban theory in relation to the rapidly mutating geographies of capitalist urbanization. Only a theory that is dynamic—which is constantly being transformed in relation to the restlessly evolving social worlds and territorial landscapes it aspires to grasp—can be a genuinely critical theory.

Author : Neil Brenner,Peter Marcuse,Margit Mayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136625046

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Cities for People, Not for Profit by Neil Brenner,Peter Marcuse,Margit Mayer Pdf

The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism. The contributors provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary urban restructuring, including the issues of neoliberalization, gentrification, colonization, "creative" cities, architecture and political power, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures and the ongoing struggles of "right to the city" movements. At the same time, the book explores the diverse interpretive frameworks – critical and otherwise – that are currently being used in academic discourse, in political struggles, and in everyday life to decipher contemporary urban transformations and contestations. The slogan, "cities for people, not for profit," sets into stark relief what the contributors view as a central political question involved in efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time. Drawing upon European and North American scholarship in sociology, politics, geography, urban planning and urban design, the book provides useful insights and perspectives for citizens, activists and intellectuals interested in exploring alternatives to contemporary forms of capitalist urbanization.

Author : Mark Jayne,Kevin Ward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317644484

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Urban Theory by Mark Jayne,Kevin Ward Pdf

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities. The introduction outlines the development of urban theory over the past two hundred years and discusses significant theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges facing the field of urban studies in the context of an increasing globally inter-connected world. The chapters explore twenty-four topics, which are new additions to the urban theoretical debate, highlighting their relationship to long established concerns that continue to have intellectual purchase, and which also engage with rich new and emerging avenues for debate. Each chapter considers the genealogy of the topic at hand and also includes case studies which explain key terms or provide empirical examples to guide the reader to a better understanding of how theory adds to our understanding of the complexities of urban life. This book offers a critical and assessable introduction to original and groundbreaking urban theory and will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, planning, political science and urban studies.

Author : Neil Brenner
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3868598936

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Implosions /Explosions by Neil Brenner Pdf

In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the "urbanization question", this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre's hypothesis. It assembles a series of analytical and cartographic interventions that supersede inherited spatial ontologies (urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature) in order to investigate the uneven implosions and explosions of capitalist urbanization across places, regions, territories, continents and oceans up to the planetary scale.

Author : Neil Brenner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190627188

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New Urban Spaces by Neil Brenner Pdf

Openings: the urban question as a scale question? -- Between fixity and motion: scaling the urban fabric -- Restructuring, rescaling and the urban question -- Global city formation and the rescaling of urbanization -- Cities and the political geographies of the "new" economy -- Competitive city-regionalism and the politics of scale -- Urban growth machines : but at what scale? -- A thousand layers: geographies of uneven development -- Planetary urbanization: mutations of the urban question -- Afterword: new spaces of urbanization

Author : Neil Brenner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190627225

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New Urban Spaces by Neil Brenner Pdf

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. In New Urban Spaces, Neil Brenner argues that understanding these mutations of urban life requires not only concrete research, but new theories of urbanization. To this end, Brenner proposes an approach that breaks with inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded settlement unit-the city or the metropolis-and explores the multiscalar constitution and periodic rescaling of the capitalist urban fabric. Drawing on critical geopolitical economy and spatialized approaches to state theory, Brenner offers a paradigmatic account of how rescaling processes are transforming inherited formations of urban space and their variegated consequences for emergent patterns and pathways of urbanization. The book also advances an understanding of critical urban theory as radically revisable: key urban concepts must be continually reinvented in relation to the relentlessly mutating worlds of urbanization they aspire to illuminate.

Author : Rob Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317005766

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Twenty-First Century Urbanism by Rob Sullivan Pdf

This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, sentient, and the phenomenological with all of them cast in new theoretical configurations and combined into one methodological entity. Rather than focusing on any one city or abstract analytical model, this book instead takes a multipronged theoretical and methodological approach to present the city as an intelligent affective organism – a sentient being. It proposes that cities operate on a relational, mobile, and phenomenological basis through the mode of efficiency, calibrated by a profoundly complicated division of labor. Its starting point is that the city is a mobile unit of analysis, from its economic status to its demographic makeup, from its cultural configuration to its environmental conditions, and therefore easily evades our quantitative and qualitative methods of computation and comprehension. Twenty-First Century Urbanism provides planning and urban design academics and students with a multifaceted approach to understanding the development of cities, encouraging the examination of cities through a myriad, non-linear approach.

Author : Jayant Singh,Hansraj Yadav,Florentin Smarandache
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DISTRICT LEVEL ANALYSIS OF URBANIZATION FROM RURAL-TO-URBAN MIGRATION IN THE RAJASTHAN STATE by Jayant Singh,Hansraj Yadav,Florentin Smarandache Pdf

Migration has various dimensions; urbanization due to migration is one of them. In Rajasthan State, District level analysis of urbanization due to migrants shows trend invariably for all the districts of the state though the contribution in urbanization by the migrants varies from district to district.

Author : Bagoes Wiryomartono
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000869231

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Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society by Bagoes Wiryomartono Pdf

Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society is an interdisciplinary compilation of chapters concerning civil society in the global geopolitical context. The establishment of civil society is essential for urbanism and the global community because it is the sense and essence of development concerning what humankind is, as a collective entity on the globe. This thought-provoking book covers the multidimensional aspects, issues, challenges, and consequences of geopolitics and globalization on civil society, including freedom in the public sphere, alienation, neo-fascism, social cohesion, racial inequality, political narcissism, political-economic exceptionalism, Islamic radicalism, social justice, and resistance. The author brings a fresh and essentially non-Western critical perspective to bear on the fundamental challenges faced by civil society as a result of the globalization of corporate capitalism in the Digital Age, as well as providing a rich perspective on colonialism. This book will appeal to scholars and graduate students of geopolitics and globalization, global development, sociology, international relations, cultural studies, psychology, and philosophy, as well as practitioners and policymakers who are interested in interdisciplinary approaches in the field of global studies.

Author : David R. Colburn,George E. Pozzetta,Richard K. Scher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Urbanization
ISBN : NWU:35556001908961

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Urbanization in the South by David R. Colburn,George E. Pozzetta,Richard K. Scher Pdf

Author : Yuji Murayama,Manjula Ranagalage,Matamyo Simwanda
Publisher : Mdpi AG
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3036525416

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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urbanization Using GIS and Remote Sensing in Developing Countries by Yuji Murayama,Manjula Ranagalage,Matamyo Simwanda Pdf

Over the last two decades, many researchers have focused on developing countries' urbanization patterns and processes. In this context, the scarcity of spatial data has been an obstacle to studying urbanization quantitatively, especially in Asian and African cities. The use of remote sensing data and geographical information systems (GIS) techniques can overcome the above limitations. Data on land use and land cover, land surface temperature, population density, and energy consumption can be extracted based on remote sensing at various spatial and temporal resolutions. GIS techniques can be used to analyze urbanization patterns and predict future patterns. Thus, the link between urbanization and sustainable urban development has increasingly become a principal issue in designing and developing sustainable cities at the local, regional, and global levels. This volume shows the spatiotemporal analysis of urbanization using GIS and remote sensing in developing countries, with a special emphasis on future urban sustainability in Asia and Africa. Capturing the spatial-temporal variation of urbanization patterns will help introduce proper sustainable urban planning in developing countries, especially for Asian and African cities.

Author : Alan Gilbert,Jorge Enrique Hardoy,Ronaldo Ramírez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039242024

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Urbanization in Contemporary Latin America by Alan Gilbert,Jorge Enrique Hardoy,Ronaldo Ramírez Pdf

Author : Andrew E. G. Jonas,Eugene McCann,Mary Thomas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118608784

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Urban Geography by Andrew E. G. Jonas,Eugene McCann,Mary Thomas Pdf

Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds

Author : Neil Brenner,Nikos Katsikis
Publisher : Actar
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1940291933

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Is the World Urban? by Neil Brenner,Nikos Katsikis Pdf

This book builds upon theories of planetary urbanization to evaluate the limits and potentials of geospatial information as a basis for mapping urbanization processes.