Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism's increasing turn to forms of...

"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The...

Homeoffice, Undertourism, Onlineshopping: Die Auswirkungen der Covid-19-Pandemie haben den Blick auf die Stadt verändert. Ist die dichte Stadt ein Sehnsuchtsort von gestern? Wie kann sie kommenden Ausnahmezuständen infolge des Klimawandels gewachsen sein? Die Prognosen schwanken zwischen...