This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative 'Southern' post-colonial and post-structuralist projects. Its main objective is to combine different urban knowledge to support and inspire an integrative research approach and a conceptual vocabulary which allows understanding the complex characteristics of diverse emerging urban spaces. Drawing on in-depth case study material from across the world, the different chapters in this volume disentangle planetary urbanization and apply it as a research framework to the context-specific challenges faced by many `ordinary' urban settings. In addition, through their focus on both Northern- and Southern urban spaces, this edited collection creates a truly global perspective on crucial practice-relevant topics such as the co-production of urban spaces, the 'right to diversity' and the 'right to the urban' in particular local settings.

Provides concise summaries of core theoretical arguments Adopts a holistic perspective which seeks to create synergies between different theoretical traditions Presents case study material from across the world, including Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Ecumenical right to the city: Urban Commons and Intersectional Enclosures in Athens and Istanbul.- Emerging Urban Indigenous Spaces in Bolivia: a Combined Planetary and Postcolonial Perspective.- The Urban as a concrete utopia? Co-production and Local Governance in Distinct Urban Geographies. Transnational Learning From Chile and Germany.- Continuity and Change in Decentralist Urbanisation: Exploring the Critical Potential of Contemporary Urban Theory Through the London Docklands Development Corporation.- Comparing at what Scale? The Challenge for Comparative Urbanism in Central Asia.- Growth of Tourism Urbanisation and Implications for the Transformation of Jamaica's Rural Hinterlands.- Formats of Extended Urbanisation in Ocean Space.-Urban Tropical Forest: Where Nature and Human Settlements are Assets for Overcoming Dependency, but how can Urban Theory Identify these Potentials?.- Urbanisation, Sustainability, Development: Contemporary Complexities and Diversities in the Production of Urban Space. <p