TY - BOOK AU - Neil Brenner TI - Implosions Explosions : : towards a study of planetary urbanization. SN - 978868593174 AV - HT361 B74 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Berlin PB - JOVIS KW - Urbanization KW - Local KW - Urban KW - Sociology KW - Sociology urban KW - Capitalism N1 - includes index; CONTENTS: 1 Introduction : -- Urban Theory Without an Outside , Nell Brenner 14 -- ONE , FOUNDATIONS - THE URBANIZATION QUESTION : 2 From the City to Urban Society , Henri Lefebvre 36 -- 3 Cities or Urbanization ? , David Harvey 52 -- 4 Networks , Borders , Differences : Towards a Theory of Urban , Christian Schmid 67 -- TWO , COMPLETE URBANIZATION – EXPERIENCE , SITE , PROCESS : 5 Where Does the City End ? , Matthew Gandy 86 -- 6 Traveling Warrior and Complete Urbanization in Switzerland : Landscape as Lived Space , Christian Schmid 90 -- 7 Is the Matterhorn City ? , Marcel Meili 103 -- 8 Extended Urbanization and Settlement Patterns in Brazil : An Environmental Approach , Roberto Luís Monte – Mór 109 -- 9 The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia : Expanding a Hypothesis , Terry G . Mcgee 121 -- THREE , PLANETARY URBANIZATION – OPENINGS : 10 The Urbanization of the World , Edward W . Soja and J . Miguel Kanai 142 -- 11 Planetary Urbanization , Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid 160 -- 12 The Urban Question Under Planetary Urbanization , Andy Merrifield 164 -- 13 Theses on Urbanization , Neil Brenner 181 -- 14 Pattern and Pathways of Global Urbanization : Towards Comparative Analysis , Christian Schmid 203 -- 15 The Country and The City in the Urban Revolution , Kanishka Goonewardena , 218 -- FOUR , HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHES OF URBANIZATION: 16 Urbs in Rure : Historical enclosure and the Extended Urbanization of the Countryside , Álvaro Sevilla – Buitrago 236 -- 17 What is the Urban in the Contemporary World ? , Roberto Luís Monte – Mór 260 -- 18 The Urbanization of Switzerland , Christian Schmid 268 -- 19 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era , Edward W . Soja 276 -- 20 Worldwide Urbanization and Neocolonial Fractures : Insights From the Literaty World , Stefan Kipfer 288 -- FIVE , URBAN STIDIES AND URBAN IDELOGIES : 21 The “ Urban Age ” in Question , Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid 310 -- 22 What Role For Social Science in the “ Urban Age ” ? , Brenda Gleeson 338 -- 23 City as Ideology , David Wachsmuth 353 -- 24 Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology : A Critique of Methodological Cityism , Hillary Angelo and David Wachsmuth 372 -- 25 Whither Urban Studies ? , Andy Merrifield 386 -- SIX , VISUALIZATION – IDEOLOGIES AND EXPERIMENTS : 26 A Typology of Urban Switzerland , Christian Schmid 398 -- 27 Is the Mediterranean Urban ? , Nel Brenner and Nikos Katsikis 428 -- 28 Visualizing an Urbanized Planet – Materials , Urban Theory Lab – GSD 460 -- SEVEN , POLITICAL STRATEGIES , STRUGGLES AND HORIZONS : 29 Two Approaches to “ World Management ” : C . A . Doxiadis and R . B . Fuller , Nikos Katsiki 480 -- 30 City Becoming World : Nancy , Lefebvre and the Global – Urban Imagination , David J . Madden 505 -- 31 The Right to the City and Beyond : Notes on a Lefebvrian Reconceptualization , Andy Merrifield 523 -- 32 The Hypertrophic City Versus the Planet of Fields , Max Ajl 533 -- 33 Becoming Urban : On Whose Terms ? , John Friedmann 551 -- CODA : 34 Dissolving City , Planetary Metamorphosis , Henri Lefebvre 566 -- Contributors 572 -- Sources 575 -- ER -