Implosions Explosions Towards

ISBN 10: 3868593179 / ISBN 13: 9783868593174

Editore: JOVIS, 2014

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Riassunto:

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.

In 1970, the influential French Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre published a book titled The Urban Revolution, in which he advanced the hypothesis that "society has been completely urbanized." By this, Lefebvre meant that the process of urbanization creates the conditions for capitalism--rather than urbanization being an outcome of the circulation of capital--and that the consequences of this process therefore extended far beyond actual cities. Compiling both classic and contemporary essays on the "urbanization question," this book explores the various theoretical, epistemological and political implications of Lefebvre’s claim, with a series of analytical and cartographic interventions that reach beyond the conventional binaries of the topic (urban/rural, city/non-city, society/nature) in order to investigate the uneven implosions and explosions of capitalist urbanization across the globe--and what Lefebvre famously termed (in his book of the same name) "the production of space."

Informazioni sull?autore: 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.

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Titolo: Implosions Explosions Towards
Casa editrice: JOVIS
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good