Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization

Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization

von Grga Bašić

How can we map the urbanization of the planet in an era of climate breakdown? The Urban Theory Lab’s

Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization
confronts this question by assembling a series of experimental visualizations of the worldwide urban fabric. This book reverses the mainstream, city centric perspective on urbanization, showing, instead, that the world of contemporary urbanization encompasses much of the planet, including apparently remote areas, wildlands, and oceans. Cities are not only producers of value, but entropic black holes that consume surpluses produced elsewhere and project waste back into the planetary biosphere. Non-city spaces are, correspondingly, the metabolic bases of planetary urbanization.

With a foreword by Jason W. Moore, an afterword by Alexander Arroyo, and contributions by Martín Arboleda, Danika Cooper, Kian Goh, Julie Michelle Klinger, Roi Salgueiro Barrio, and Hashim Sarkis

• Shows the impact of planetary urbanization in 500 beautiful and revealing spatial data visualizations
• Highlights the importance of operational landscapes beyond the city
• Assembles theoretical and methodological texts by the Urban Theory Lab as well as critical commentaries

Über den Autor

Grga Bašić
is a senior research associate in Cartography and Spatial Media at the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago.

Neil Brenner
is the Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology and director of the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago. He edited

Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization
(JOVIS, 2014).

Mariano Gomez-Luque
is head of curatorial projects at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and an affiliated researcher at the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago.

Nikos Katsikis
is an assistant professor of urbanism at TU Delft, where he co-leads the Critical Environments group, and an affiliated researcher at the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago.

Grga Bašić
ist leitender wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Bereich Kartografie und räumliche Medien am Urban Theory Lab der University of Chicago.

Neil Brenner
ist Lucy-Flower-Professor für Stadtsoziologie und Leiter des Urban Theory Lab der University of Chicago. 2014 erschien das von ihm herausgegebene Buch

Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization
im JOVIS Verlag.

Mariano Gomez-Luque
ist Leiter der kuratorischen Projekte am Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) und assoziierter Wissenschaftler am Urban Theory Lab der University of Chicago.

Nikos Katsikis
ist Assistenzprofessor für Stadtplanung an der TU Delft, wo er gemeinsam mit anderen die Gruppe „Critical Environments“ leitet, sowie assoziierter Wissenschaftler am Urban Theory Lab der University of Chicago.