Beyond The Megacity
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Beyond the Megacity
Author: Nadine Reis
language: en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date: 2022-03-01
Beyond the Megacity connects and reconnects the global debate on the contemporary urban condition to the Latin American tradition of seeing, considering, and theorizing urbanization from the margins. It develops the approach of "peripheral urbanization" as a way to integrate the theoretical agendas belonging to global suburbanisms, neo-Marxist accounts of planetary urbanization, and postcolonial urban studies, and to move urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South. From an interdisciplinary perspective, Beyond the Megacity investigates the natures, causes, implications, and politics of current urbanization processes in Latin America. The book draws on case studies from various countries across the region, covering theoretical and disciplinary approaches from the fields of geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, agrarian studies, and urban and regional planning, and is written by academics, journalists, practitioners, and scholar-activists. Beyond the Megacity unites these unique perspectives by shifting attention to the places, processes, practices, and bodies of knowledge that have often been neglected in the past.
Beyond Metropolis
Author: Aprodicio A. Laquian
language: en
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Release Date: 2005-05-05
Beyond Metropolis builds on studies conducted during the 1990s under the Centre for Human Settlements at the University of British Columbia.
The Megacity Saga
The story of the creation of the megacity of Toronto and that of the grassroots movement, Citizens for Local Democracy, that began a crusade in the name of local democracy that has brought the issue of citizenship to the forefront of public debates. It examines what it means to be a citizen and why it is important to fight to keep open a certain kind of democratic space at the local level.