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Implosions /Explosions

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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...
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  • 30 April 2014
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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.

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Price: $66.99
Pages: 576
Publisher: JOVIS
Imprint: JOVIS
Publication Date: 30 April 2014
Trim Size: 9.50 X 6.50 in
ISBN: 9783868593174
Format: Paperback
BISACs: ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, City & town planning: architectural aspects, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Settlement, urban & rural geography, Theory of architecture
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NEIL BRENNER, editor, is Professor of Urban Theory and Director of the Urban Theory Lab (UTL) at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. His research focuses on urbanization and territorial regulation under contemporary capitalism, as well as on questions of concept formation, method, spatial representation and critique in urban studies.