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Towards a new epistemology of the urban

Neil Brenner, +1 more
- 01 Apr 2015 - 
- Vol. 19, pp 151-182
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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...
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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. Meanwhile, debates on t...

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The production of space

Henri Lefebvre
- 01 Jul 1992 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a plan of the present work, from absolute space to abstract space, from the Contradictions of Space to Differential Space, and from Contradictory Space to Social Space.
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Simon Sheikh
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Jane Jacobs
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Geology of mankind

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Towards a new epistemology of the urban?

The paper discusses the need for a new epistemology of the urban due to the ongoing social, economic, regulatory, and environmental transformations since the 1980s.