Beyond the Megacity: New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America

Published by University of Toronto Press 2022

Beyond the Megacity

New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America

Edited by: Nadine Reis and Michael Lukas

In the series Global Suburbanisms

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487539719

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About this book

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South.

Author / Editor information

Reis Nadine :

Nadine Reis is a professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) at El Colegio de México.
Lukas Michael :

Michael Lukas is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the Universidad de Chile.

Reviews

Ramiro Segura, Professor of Urban Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de San Martín :

"Beyond the Megacity expresses an epistemological and empirical shift relevant to Latin American urban studies. The different parts, including theoretical framework, urban periphery, agency from below, and extended urbanization, organize a suggestive journey that allows us to understand some recent urban transformations in the continent that – beyond their heterogeneity and polysemy – can effectively be grouped under the idea of ‘peripheral urbanization.’"

Juan Miguel Kanai, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sheffield:

"Beyond the Megacity makes a key contribution to global urban studies by bringing together leading authors on the phenomenon of peripheral urbanization in Latin America. Bringing together a vast range of perspectives, topical concerns, and geographies of analysis, this book is doubtless a major achievement and sets new terms of debate."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America Michael Lukas and Nadine Reis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1 Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
1 Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South Teresa Caldeira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
2 Urban Community and Resistance Raúl Zibechi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
3 Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America Martín Arboleda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
PART 2 Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism
4 Large-Scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in the Production of Urban Space in the Mexico City Megaregion Clara Salazar, Nadine Reis and Ann Varley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5 Peri-urban Megaprojects in Santiago de Chile: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle- Class Dwellers César Cáceres Seguel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
6 Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery Liz Mason-Deese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
PART 3 Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins
7 The Self-Built City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima’s Hybrid Peripheries Kathrin Golda-Pongratz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
8 Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte João Tonucci and Rodrigo Castriota Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
9 Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-urban Bolivia Hannah-Hunt Moeller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
10 Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas Christina M. Schiavoni and Ana Felicien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
PART 4 Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes
11 Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador Gustavo Durán, Jonathan Menoscal and Manuel Bayón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
12 Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile Michael Lukas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
13 Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras: Unveiling Abstract Space in Yucatán, Mexico Claudia Fonseca Alfaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
14 Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil Alisson F. Barbieri and Ricardo Ojima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
15 The Urbanization of Mexico’s Countryside: A Socio-political Approach to Spatial Transformation Gabriela Torres-Mazuera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theo Nadine Reis and Michael Lukas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 432
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 35
- Other: 31 b&w illustrations, 11 b7w maps,1 b&w figure, 8 b&w tables
Keywords: urban; Latin America; politics; economy; decolonial; theory; postcolonial; urbanism; urbanization; peripheries; social; activism; movements; rurality; extractivism; sururban; sururb

eBook

Published: March 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781487539719