22 What Role For Social Science in the “Urban Age”?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. PREFACE 6
3. CONTENTS 10
4. 1 Introduction: Urban Theory Without an Outside 14
5. ONE FOUNDATIONS— THE URBANIZATION QUESTION
6. 2 From the City to Urban Society 33
7. 3 Cities or Urbanization? 52
8. 4 Networks, Borders, Differences: Towards a Theory of the Urban 67
9. TWO COMPLETE URBANIZATION— EXPERIENCE, SITE, PROCESS
10. 5 Where Does the City End? 82
11. 6 Traveling Warrior and Complete Urbanization in Switzerland: Landscape as Lived Space 90
12. 7 Is the Matterhorn City? 103
13. 8 Extended Urbanization and Settlement Patterns in Brazil: An Environmental Approach 109
14. 9 The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia: Expanding a Hypothesis 121
15. THREE PLANETARY URBANIZATION— OPENINGS
16. 10 The Urbanization of the World 138
17. 11 Planetary Urbanization 160
18. 12 The Urban Question Under Planetary Urbanization 164
19. 13 Theses on Urbanization 181
20. 14 Patterns and Pathways of Global Urbanization: Towards Comparative Analysis 203
21. 15 The Country and The City in the Urban Revolution 218
22. Four Historical geographies of urbanization
23. 16 Urbs in Rure: Historical Enclosure and the Extended Urbanization of the Countryside 232
24. 17 What is the Urban in the Contemporary World? 260
25. 18 The Urbanization of Switzerland 268
26. 19 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 276
27. 20 Worldwide Urbanization and Neocolonial Fractures: Insights From the Literary World 288
28. Five Urban studies and urban ideologies
29. 21 The “Urban Age” in Question 307
30. 22 What Role For Social Science in the “Urban Age”? 338
31. 23 City as Ideology 353
32. 24 Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism 372
33. 25 Whither Urban Studies? 386
34. SIX Visualizations— ideologies and experiments
35. 26 A Typology of Urban Switzerland 395
36. 27 Is the Mediterranean Urban? 428
37. 28 Visualizing an Urbanized Planet— Materials 460
38. SEVEN Political strate gies, struggles and horizons
39. 29 Two Approaches to “World Management”: C. A. Doxiadis and R. B. Fuller 477
40. 30 City Becoming World: Nancy, Lefebvre and the Global-Urban Imagination 505
41. 31 The Right to the City and Beyond: Notes on a Lefebvrian Reconceptualization 523
42. 32 The Hypertrophic City Versus the Planet of Fields 533
43. 33 Becoming Urban: On Whose Terms? 551
44. Coda
45. 34 Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis 562
46. Contributors 572
47. Sources 575