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Extensive Urbanization and Its Planetary Implications

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 6259

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Dr. Juan Miguel Kanai

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Department of Geography, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Interests: large-scale spatial processes and socio-economic structures implicated in the worldwide growth of cities; the infrastructurally-mediated expansion of peri-urban areas; urbanization’s global footprint
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Dear Colleagues,

The far-reaching eco-social implications of new urbanization processes require multidisciplinary engagement. Impacts are manifold, affect multiple sites across the urban-rural continuum, and are mediated by localized governance arrangements whilst increasingly implicating global economic processes and Earth systems. This Special Issue calls for contributions from multiple methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives of relevance for studies of global, world, or planetary urbanization. Submissions may include but should not be limited to the following topics: infrastructures of global connectivity and their impacts on socio-ecological systems; territorial development models and their urban dynamics; greening urban globalization and the role of nature-based solutions in global urban policy; socio-ecological movements in global city-regions; more-than-human politics of difference in peri-urban hinterlands; cartographic innovations on peri-urban development; innovative approaches to defining and measuring multidimensional urban footprints. The Special Issue will especially welcome contributions that promote transdisciplinarity across the environmental and social sciences whilst broadening the realm of global urban studies. Contributions should engage less-studied locations, promote innovative comparisons across differences including the North–South divide, and engage with peri-urban geographies as productive sites for the generation of theory and policy-oriented reflections on how to manage unevenly generalized urban conditions.

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Dr. Juan Kanai
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • planetary urbanization
  • infrastructure-led development
  • urbanization and socio-ecological systems
  • comparative global urbanisms

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Extended Urbanization through Capital Centralization: Contract Farming in Palm Oil-Based Agroindustrialization
by Isnu Putra Pratama, Haryo Winarso, Delik Hudalah and Ibnu Syabri
Sustainability 2021, 13(18), 10044; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su131810044 - 08 Sep 2021
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The discussion on extended urbanization considers accumulation by dispossession as a key apparatus for instilling urban logic into predominantly rural areas. This paper contends that extended urbanization can also be produced without physical dispossession of community land. This is illustrated by the case [...] Read more.
The discussion on extended urbanization considers accumulation by dispossession as a key apparatus for instilling urban logic into predominantly rural areas. This paper contends that extended urbanization can also be produced without physical dispossession of community land. This is illustrated by the case study of Sei Mangkei, an emerging palm oil agroindustrial district in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Capitalist industries prefer monetization through contract farming rather than privatization as an instrument to capture the productivity of palm oil smallholder land. The people who serve as smallholders in the palm oil industry are not victims of land appropriation. Moreover, this situation was also triggered by an opportunity for maximizing the socio-economic welfare of smallholders. However, the limited options to access other economic activities when the commodity crisis occurred was a consequence that smallholders were not aware of in the past. Thus, we assert that extended urbanization was (re)produced through the articulation of socio-economic and cultural practices of smallholders on a local-scale with regard to the dynamics of the broader process of global industrialization. Full article
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Urbanization, Touristification and Verticality in the Andes: A Profile of Huaraz, Peru
by Domenico Branca and Andreas Haller
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6438; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13116438 - 05 Jun 2021
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Mountain cities specializing in tourism increasingly aim at valorizing cultural and natural heritage to compete for global attention. In this context, the postmodern urbanization of mountains plays a decisive role: driven by touristification processes, it alters the sociospatial and economic configuration of mountain [...] Read more.
Mountain cities specializing in tourism increasingly aim at valorizing cultural and natural heritage to compete for global attention. In this context, the postmodern urbanization of mountains plays a decisive role: driven by touristification processes, it alters the sociospatial and economic configuration of mountain cities and their hinterlands, which are becoming vertically arranged “operational landscapes”, and profoundly changes city–mountain interactions. To foster sustainable development in urbanizing mountain destinations, it is crucial to understand these settlements’ embeddedness in both (1) nature and culture and (2) space and time. The Andean city of Huaraz is a case in point: an intermediate center in highland Peru, it is characterized by a strategic location in the Callejón de Huaylas (Santa Valley), influenced by Hispanic and Quechua culture and dominated by the glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca. Combining (1) a theoretical framework that considers planetary urbanization, touristification and vertical complementarity and (2) a case study technique inspired by urban environmental profiles, we trace the development of the city–mountain relation in Huaraz, focusing on the way in which the material and non-material dimensions of the surrounding mountains influence urban development. We conclude with a call for overcoming a set of three persisting dichotomies that continue to impair sustainable development. Full article
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