Understanding the planet we live in
Understanding the planet
we live in, from an urban perspective, has become central in indulging the
present and envisioning the future of the urban condition. The urban condition has
been, however, profoundly transformed. New forms of urban governance,
urbanization, planning, and place making are manifesting throughout the world.
The insights from various disciplines can enrich understandings of the way place and space are governed, with an eye on democratic decision-making and long-term sustainable perspectives. The production and reproduction of urban space as a distinctiveness, a dense, bounded spatial unit whose existence and developmental dynamics can be comprehensively explained, promoted, and managed, through an appeal to multidisciplinary structures of conceptualarrangements, today remains as robust as ever (Brenner, 2018).
Urban space, therefore, reflects the dominant social, political, and economic powers and values of the time and jurisdiction where it is produced. The wide…
The insights from various disciplines can enrich understandings of the way place and space are governed, with an eye on democratic decision-making and long-term sustainable perspectives. The production and reproduction of urban space as a distinctiveness, a dense, bounded spatial unit whose existence and developmental dynamics can be comprehensively explained, promoted, and managed, through an appeal to multidisciplinary structures of conceptualarrangements, today remains as robust as ever (Brenner, 2018).
Urban space, therefore, reflects the dominant social, political, and economic powers and values of the time and jurisdiction where it is produced. The wide…
