Extended urbanization: implications for urban and regional theory

Monte-Mór, Roberto Luís de Melo; Castriota, Rodrigo

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“…Extended urbanization, we argue, is the necessary elaboration that brings together the main features of planetary urbanization as a project : the acknowledgment that there is no escape route since society moves towards its complete urbanization – which makes room for (and demands) an urban strategy – and hence the urgent need to produce an ex-centric perspective within the field of urban studies. As part of this collective research agenda and in order to foster a productive dialogue between contemporary and previous formulations of extended urbanization, we present the concept as originally formulated from the Brazilian context by Roberto Monte-Mór (1988, 1994, 2004, 2007, 2015).…”

Section: Planetary Urbanization and Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We present Monte-Mór’s empirical and theoretical contributions in an attempt to move beyond the ways in which they have been framed by contemporary scholars. Brenner (2014b) introduces Monte-Mór as a classical author who provided an early theorization of ‘extended urbanization’; Brenner and Schmid (2014: 751) likewise attribute the term to Monte-Mór (2004). 3 Beyond his role as a pioneer researcher in the extreme territory of the urban Amazonia, 4 Monte-Mór’s formulation also approximates Lefebvre’s discussion of how processes of urbanization extend urban praxis, culminating, in the Brazilian case, in a process of ‘extended citizenship’ (Monte-Mór, 2004).…”

Section: Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, neither the work of Monte-Mór nor the Amazon frontier is presented here as ‘… anomalous, different, and esoteric empirical cases’ (Roy, 2009: 870) nor as contributing to any form of ‘asymmetrical ignorance’ (Robinson, 2002). Rather, we take Amazonia as ‘… a paradigmatic window through which to see urban–rural and regional development taking place in Brazil’s incompletely organized territory (and society)’ (Monte-Mór, 2004: 302). In other words, we take the apparent ‘… idiosyncratic case study [as] the basis of a new theory’ (Roy, 2016: 201) – particularly, one that could offer an important vantage point to strengthen contemporary formulations of planetary urbanization.…”

Section: Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Monte-Mór’s (2004) method to develop and (re)present the concept of extended urbanization comprises two different moments. First, inspired by Edward Soja’s (2000) idea of ‘Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace’, Monte-Mór presents a geohistorical reading that reconstructs the history of urbanization in Brazil revealing how it has unfolded in the course of the country’s urban–industrial development.…”

Section: Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Monte-Mór (2004) rewrites the geohistory of Brazilian urban space bringing to life the categories of Lefebvre’s ([1970]2003) temporal axis. From the small and medium cities of the 17th century in which slavery inhibited the formation of urban markets and further divisions of labor, the urban nuclei expressed the power of rural oligarchies that controlled agrarian production.…”

Section: Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extended urbanization in and from Brazil

Castriota

Filho

2018

Environ Plan D

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The notion of planetary urbanization has recently mobilized different strands in the field of urban studies and has generated extensive debates. This emerging research agenda aims to revise inherited concepts and produce a new vocabulary of urbanization through the construction of an ex-centric perspective that dislocates the focus of analysis from its conventional center: the city. The idea of extended urbanization is thus an imperative concept for it operationalizes this theoretical decentering and permits the exploration of urban questions beyond city-centrism, while encompassing urban agglomerations. This article discusses the conception of extended urbanization. We examine its vital insertion into the contemporary agenda of planetary urbanization and present its original formulation in and from Brazil, developed by Roberto Monte-Mór in the 1980s. In order to foster a productive dialogue between these formulations, we discuss the contradictions embedded within the process of extended urbanization and highlight Monte-Mór’s main theoretical and empirical contributions – particularly regarding urban politics and extended citizenship in the Brazilian Amazon. We contend that extended urbanization as formulated in and from Brazil offers important developments and goes far beyond a mere interesting empirical case in and from Brazil. Instead, it illuminates contemporary questions regarding planetary urbanization.

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Section: Planetary Urbanization and Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Extended Urbanizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extended urbanization in and from Brazil

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Filho

2018

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Between plaza and peak: a montological perspective on verticality and urbanization in highland Peru

Haller,

Branca,

Cano

2023

J. Mt. Sci.

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Under the influence of concentrated and extended urbanization, Andean cities and the different altitudinal zones of their “hinterlands” are experiencing profound changes in land cover — from the central plazas up to the highest peaks. The complex regional-geographic characteristics of these socioecological systems, such as the vertical complementarity of land use, require a montological perspective on verticality and urbanization: it transcends disciplinary approaches and can be crucial to properly interpret the trajectories of land cover change and formulate hypotheses for future practice-oriented research. Which trajectories of land cover change characterized altitudinal zones of Andean cities and their surroundings over the last three decades? Are there similarities that allow for the formulation of more general hypotheses? Using the Peruvian cases of Cusco and Huaraz, and combining a traditional altitudinal zonation model of land use in Peru with direct field observations and GIS-based analyses of remotely sensed data from 1991, 2001, 2011, and 2021, this study identifies the main trajectories of land cover change in the Quechua (>2300–3500 m), Suni (>3500–4000 m), and Puna (>4000–4800 m) regions — and finds insightful similarities between Cusco and Huaraz: (1) an impressive area of built-up land substitutes grassland in the Quechua, which, following regional altitudinal zonation models, is characterized by irrigated and rain-fed cropland; (2) an unexpected expansion of irrigated cropland takes place in the Suni, which, in theory, often lacks irrigation infrastructure and is mostly used for rain-fed tuber cultivation; and (3) a clear change from “other land” to grassland occurs in the Puna — where grassland is thought to predominate, anyway, since pre-Hispanic times. Hypothesizing that these changes reflect the interplay between speculative fallow, agricultural intensification, and ecological restoration, the results can be read as vertically complementary, local manifestations of concentrated and extended urbanization in a formerly peripheral mountain region of the Global South — and they underscore the need to overcome mental city-mountain dichotomies for a socially inclusive and ecologically balanced Andean development between plaza and peak.

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