What is the urban in the contemporary world

Bibliographic Data

ID5165778
AuthorsRoberto Luís De Melo Monte-Mór (0000-0001-9417-4121, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, corresponding author), Roberto Luís Monte-Mór (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Year2005
Volume21
Issue3
Pages942-948
Publication date2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-311x2005000300030
PMID15868054
OpenAlexW2047454681
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2005000300030
LanguageEN
Citations received40
References cited3

Central concepts of contemporary life such as politics, civilization, and citizenship derive from the city's form and social organization. The city expresses the socio-spatial division of labor, and Henri Lefèbvre proposes to view its transformation within a continuum from the political city to the urban, whereby it completes its domination over the countryside. The city's transformation into the urban takes place when industry brings production (and the proletariat) into that space of power. The city, locus of surplus, power, and the fiesta, a privileged scenario for social reproduction, was subordinated to the industrial logic and underwent a dual process: its centrality imploded, and its outskirts exploded on surrounding areas through the urban fabric, bearing with it the seeds of the polis and civitas. The urban praxis, formerly restricted to the city, re-politicized social space as a whole. In Brazil, the urban has its origins in the military governments' centralizing and integrating policies, following Vargas's expansionism and Kubitschek's developmental interiorization (or occupation of the hinterlands). Today, urban-industrial processes impose themselves over virtually all social space, in contemporary extended urbanization

Civilization · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Expansionism · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Right to the city · Sociology · Urbanity · Urbanization · Law · Urban Development and Societal Issues

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