Grga Bašić / Neil Brenner / Mariano Gomez-Luque / Nikos Katsikis
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 new book reverses the mainstream, city-centric perspective on urbanization, showing instead that contemporary urbanization extends across much of the planet—including remote areas, wildlands, and oceans.
Cities are portrayed not only as producers of value but also as entropic black holes that consume surpluses generated elsewhere and release waste back into the planetary biosphere. Non-city spaces, in turn, appear as the metabolic bases that sustain 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.
