Emerging Urban Spaces A Planetary Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Horn, Philipp (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Alfaro d'Alencon, Paola (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Duarte Cardoso, Ana Claudia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Urban Book Series,
• Subjects: Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Human geography.; Sociology, Urban.; Economic development.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Human Geography.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Development Studies.

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....

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Ecumenical "right to the city": Urban Commons and Intersectional Enclosures in Athens and Istanbul
• Emerging Urban Indigenous Spaces in Bolivia: a Combined Planetary and Postcolonial Perspective
• The Urban as a "concrete utopia"? Co-production and Local Governance in Distinct Urban Geographies. Transnational Learning From Chile and Germany
• Continuity and Change in Decentralist Urbanisation: Exploring the Critical Potential of Contemporary Urban Theory Through the London Docklands Development Corporation
• Comparing at what Scale? The Challenge for Comparative Urbanism in Central Asia
• Growth of Tourism Urbanisation and Implications for the Transformation of Jamaica's Rural Hinterlands
• Formats of Extended Urbanisation in Ocean Space.-Urban Tropical Forest: Where Nature and Human Settlements are Assets for Overcoming Dependency, but how can Urban Theory Identify these Potentials?
• Urbanisation, Sustainability, Development: Contemporary Complexities and Diversities in the Production of Urban Space.