The Urban Question under Planetary Urbanization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andy Merrifield (School of Environment and Development University of Manchester PO Box 88 Manchester M60 1QD UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 909-922 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01189.x |
| OpenAlex | W1555665263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 163 |
| References cited | 11 |
In Le Droit à la Ville (1968), Lefebvre projects the urban trajectory of his day into the sci-fi imaginary of Isaac Asimov's remarkable Foundation series, recognizing the germ of 'Trantor' in our midst, the planet of 40 billion inhabitants where urbanization has reached its absolute maximum; all 75 million square miles of Trantor's land surface are a single city. In La Révolution Urbaine (1970), Lefebvre had already begun hinting at a new reality, not only an urban society, but of planetary urbanization. Today, four decades on, Asimov's extraterrestrial universe seems closer to home than ever, and closer to Lefebvre's own terrestrial prognostications: planetary urbanization is creating a whole new spatial world (dis)order. But how shall we reclaim the shapeless, formless and boundless metropolis as a theoretical object and political object of the progressive struggle? If the arena of politics has no discernible form, what would be the form of these politics? What, exactly, are urban politics? This article tries to rethink theoretically the urban question and the question of urban politics in our era of planetary urbanization, working through the political role of the urban in the light of recent 'Occupy' mobilizations
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Introduction
Providing places for structures of feeling and hierarchical complementarity in urban theory
From the city lens toward urbanisation as a way of seeing
Current debates in urban theory
Cities on and off the map
The constitution of the city and the critique of critical urban theory
Urban studies after the age of the city
Vertical cities
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Transnational gentrification
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The Politics of the Encounter
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| Unique citing works | 163 |
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| Citations per year | 12,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 156 |