The City: Spaces, Times and Subjects in the Global Transition (edited by Niccolò Cuppini)

Within the entering in the global era, the city is come back again as a strategic architrave of the world's infrastructure – while the State, the historical figure through which Modernity was organized, has been declared in crisis long time ago. Despite the broad spectrum of urban reflections,...

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Published inScienza e politica Vol. 27; no. 53
Main Author Niccolò Cuppini
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Bologna 01.12.2015
Subjects
Città
Età globale
Genealogia
Teoria politica
Urbanizzazione planetaria
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Summary:Within the entering in the global era, the city is come back again as a strategic architrave of the world's infrastructure – while the State, the historical figure through which Modernity was organized, has been declared in crisis long time ago. Despite the broad spectrum of urban reflections, there still is a deep lack of political theory of the city. The globalization of the city – within the pathway of the planetary urbanization – is the object of the article, that elaborates on a twofold level: on one hand, a genealogical trace of that process is proposed – articulating it by distilling urban political thought from different authors and historical episodes; on the other hand, the article suggests a theoretical and methodological horizon through which to grasp the contemporary global transitions, labelled as “seeing like a city”.
ISSN:1590-4946
1825-9618
DOI:10.6092/issn.1825-9618/5840