Emerging Urban Spaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Philipp Horn, Ana Claudia Cardoso, Paola Alfaro d’Alençon

   Pages 1-19

3. The Ecumenical ‘Right to the City’: Urban Commons and Intersectional Enclosures in Athens and Istanbul

   • Charalampos Tsavdaroglou

   Pages 21-41

4. Emerging Urban Indigenous Spaces in Bolivia: A Combined Planetary and Postcolonial Perspective

   • Philipp Horn

   Pages 43-64

5. The Urban as a Concrete Utopia? Co-production and Local Governance in Distinct Urban Geographies: Transnational Learning from Chile and Germany

   • Paola Alfaro d’Alençon, Ernesto López Morales

   Pages 65-85

6. Continuity and Change in Decentralist Urbanisation: Exploring the Critical Potential of Contemporary Urban Theory Through the London Docklands Development Corporation

   • David Mountain

   Pages 87-107

7. Comparing at What Scale? The Challenge for Comparative Urbanism in Central Asia

   • Elena Trubina

   Pages 109-127

8. Growth of Tourism Urbanisation and Implications for the Transformation of Jamaica’s Rural Hinterlands

   • Sheere Brooks

   Pages 129-148

9. Formats of Extended Urbanisation in Ocean Space

   • Nancy Couling

   Pages 149-176

10. Urban Tropical Forest: Where Nature and Human Settlements Are Assets for Overcoming Dependency, but How Can Urbanisation Theories Identify These Potentials?

    • Ana Claudia Cardoso, Harley Silva, Ana Carolina Melo, Danilo Araújo

    Pages 177-199

11. Urbanisation, Sustainability and Development: Contemporary Complexities and Diversities in the Production of Urban Space

    • Roberto Luís Monte-Mór

    Pages 201-215

12. Back Matter

    Pages 217-219

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This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects – namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative ‘Southern’ post-colonial and post-structuralist projects. Its main objective is to combine different urban knowledge to support and inspire an integrative research approach and a conceptual vocabulary which allows understanding the complex characteristics of diverse emerging urban spaces.

Drawing on in-depth case study material from across the world, the different chapters in this volume disentangle planetary urbanization and apply it as a research framework to the context-specific challenges faced by many `ordinary' urban settings. In addition, through their focus on both Northern- and Southern urban spaces, this edited collection creates a truly global perspective on crucial practice-relevant topics such as the co-production of urban spaces, the ‘right to diversity’ and the ‘right to the urban’ in particular local settings.

• Emergent Urban Spaces
• Planetary Urbanisation
• Right to the City
• Ordinary Cities
• Inclusive Urban Development
• Urban Theory
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Development Policy and Practice, The Open University , Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

  Philipp Horn

• Habitat Unit, Institute for Architecture, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Paola Alfaro d'Alencon

• Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Pará , Belém (PA), Brazil

  Ana Claudia Duarte Cardoso

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