Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization

Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization

<span>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.<span> </span>Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the "urbanization question", t</span><span>his book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre's hypothesis.<span>  </span>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 </span><span>of capitalist urbanization across places, regions, territories, continents and oceans up to the planetary scale.<span>  </span></span>