Christian Schmid

TL;DR: New forms of urbanization are unfolding around the world that challenge inherited conceptions of the urban as a fixed, bounded and universally generalizable settlement type as mentioned in this paper, and debates on t...

TL;DR: The authors argues that the urban age thesis is empirically untenable (a statistical artifact) and theoretically incoherent (a chaotic conception) to conceptualize world urbanization patterns and proposes a series of methodological perspectives for an alternative understanding of the contemporary global urban condition.

TL;DR: The Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (Athena+) mission as discussed by the authors provides the necessary performance (e.g., angular resolution, spectral resolution, survey grasp) to address these questions and revolutionize our understanding of the Hot and Energetic Universe.

TL;DR: Lefebvre's theory of the production of space has undergone a remarkable renaissance during recent years as discussed by the authors, which is all the more surprising as it had hardly elicited any response when published in the early 1970s.

TL;DR: The theoretical and methodological framework of a collaborative comparative study of urbanisation processes in eight large metropolitan territories across the world: Tokyo, Hong Kong/Shenzhen/Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles is introduced.