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Urbanisation, unlimited: A Thematic Journey Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 Edition
Author(s): Johannes Fiedler (Author)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: 17 Sept. 2016
- Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
- Language: English
- Print length: 186 pages
- ISBN-10: 3319377965
- ISBN-13: 9783319377964
Book Description
This volume of essays on urbanisation explores core themes such as privatisation and vitality. Using exemplars from places as diverse as Brazil and the Middle East, its post-voluntarist perspective rejects neoliberal and determinist planning traditions.
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From the Back Cover
In a series of essays, the process of urbanisation – a human mega-trend acquiring unprecedented scale and speed as globalisation proceeds – is examined in the most diverse contexts and stages of development. Drawing on scientific references and identifying recurring themes like dispersion, privatisation and vitality, Fiedler devises the glossary for a cross-cultural understanding of the global urban system emerging. Images and anecdotal evidence reconnect these themes to local realities. The tone of the essays conveys a post-voluntarist attitude, derived from many years of professional experience – critical of both neoliberal practices and determinist ideas.
To “condemn the reality” of global urbanization “is fruitless”, writes Johannes Fiedler in this unlimited view of a world of constant motion, subject no longer to just its planetary rotations, but also to the constant push and pull of its various populations, some of whose giant constructionsshift the earth’s axis.
From the foreword by Lars Lerup
