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RESUMO Este trabalho visa expor e discutir quais correntes do pensamento econômico são capazes de apresentar formulações que dialoguem com a conformação espacial das cidades no capitalismo contemporâneo. Para isso, parte-se de uma apresentação dos pressupostos de um modelo neoclássico tradicional de Economia Urbana, seguido da apreciação crítica desse modelo. A partir dessa crítica, expõem-se as diversas visões das escolas de pensamento econômico em relação ao conceito de renda da terra, o qual é entendido como uma categoria de análise ainda útil para se entender tal estrutura espacial, bem como são fundamentais as considerações sobre as particularidades do urbano.

O papel do espaço no processo de desenvolvimento socioeconômico constitui um objeto de estudo bastante complexo. Os teóricos da Escola Francesa de Sociologia Urbana elaboraram uma série de estudos nesta área com o intuito de esclarecer as relações entre a forma espacial e os processos sociais. O objetivo do artigo é destacar os principais argumentos desta Escola de Pensamento, o papel desempenhado pelas cidades neste processo e as principais recomendações de políticas de desenvolvimento que surgem a partir de então. A análise sugere que as escalas territoriais tornam-se fundamentais para a dinâmica das economias nacionais, o que lhes concede papel de destaque como objeto de política: medidas intervencionistas devem ser combinadas nas diversas escalas territoriais, considerando a localidade como parte do todo. É preciso repensar a espacialidade, o que contribuirá para o desenvolvimento socioeconômico integrado.

Abstract: The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) has been carrying out an experience of metropolitan planning in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, since 2009, involving a significant number of faculty and students. In this paper, we highlight some of the innovative aspects of this planning process. We stress the specificities of a planning experience conducted under the auspices of the University in an attempt to move beyond both its disciplinary and academic boundaries. Therefore, we emphasize the participatory dimension in which the University team is engaged along with civil society. We also describe proposals that put the environmental concern at the forefront of metropolitan restructuring and the efforts to materialize them through a Green and Blue Weft (Trama Verde e Azul - TVA). Finally, we discuss our understanding of planning as a political process beyond the institutionalized public policy practice in an attempt to give voice and visibility to different ways of seeing and making the metropolitan region.

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1 Introduction: Urban Theory Without an Outside -- ONE FOUNDATIONS— THE URBANIZATION QUESTION -- 2 From the City to Urban Society -- 3 Cities or Urbanization? -- 4 Networks, Borders, Differences: Towards a Theory of the Urban -- TWO COMPLETE URBANIZATION— EXPERIENCE, SITE, PROCESS -- 5 Where Does the City End? -- 6 Traveling Warrior and Complete Urbanization in Switzerland: Landscape as Lived Space -- 7 Is the Matterhorn City? -- 8 Extended Urbanization and Settlement Patterns in Brazil: An Environmental Approach -- 9 The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia: Expanding a Hypothesis -- THREE PLANETARY URBANIZATION— OPENINGS -- 10 The Urbanization of the World -- 11 Planetary Urbanization -- 12 The Urban Question Under Planetary Urbanization -- 13 Theses on Urbanization -- 14 Patterns and Pathways of Global Urbanization: Towards Comparative Analysis -- 15 The Country and The City in the Urban Revolution -- Four Historical geographies of urbanization -- 16 Urbs in Rure: Historical Enclosure and the Extended Urbanization of the Countryside -- 17 What is the Urban in the Contemporary World? -- 18 The Urbanization of Switzerland -- 19 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era -- 20 Worldwide Urbanization and Neocolonial Fractures: Insights From the Literary World -- Five Urban studies and urban ideologies -- 21 The "Urban Age" in Question -- 22 What Role For Social Science in the "Urban Age"? -- 23 City as Ideology -- 24 Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism -- 25 Whither Urban Studies? -- SIX Visualizations— ideologies and experiments -- 26 A Typology of Urban Switzerland -- 27 Is the Mediterranean Urban? -- 28 Visualizing an Urbanized Planet— Materials -- SEVEN Political strate gies, struggles and horizons -- 29 Two Approaches to "World Management": C. A. Doxiadis and R. B. Fuller -- 30 City Becoming World: Nancy, Lefebvre and the Global-Urban Imagination -- 31 The Right to the City and Beyond: Notes on a Lefebvrian Reconceptualization -- 32 The Hypertrophic City Versus the Planet of Fields -- 33 Becoming Urban: On Whose Terms? -- Coda -- 34 Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis -- Contributors -- Sources

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially the North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape

Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the 'city' as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat seeks to turn UPE's critical energies towards a politically engaged debate over the role of extensive urbanisation in addressing socio-environmental equality in the context of climate change.The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars spanning three generations, engaging UPE in current debates about urbanisation and climate change. Engaging with cutting edge approaches including feminist political ecology, circular economies, and the Anthropocene, case studies in the book range from Singapore and Amsterdam to Nairobi and Vancouver. Contributors make the case for a UPE better informed by situated knowledges: an embodied UPE that pays equal attention to the role of postcolonial processes and more-than-human ontologies of capital accumulation within the context of the climate emergency. Acknowledging UPE's rich intellectual history and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, Turning up the heat reveals how UPE is ideally positioned to address contemporary environmental issues in theory and practice