Planetary Urbanization and Sustainable Development Christian Schmid ETH Zürich / FCL Singapore sustainable development urbanization 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) theories on urbanization sociospatial phenomenon from urban form to urban process extended and concentrated urbanization urbanization leads to increasing differences planetary urbanization Global shipping lanes: Wang, Corbett, Firestone 2007 planetary urbanization • The creation of new scales of urbanization • The blurring and rearticulation of urban territories • The disintegration of the “hinterland” • The end of the “wilderness“ (Brenner, Schmid 2011, 2013) citypopulation.de, 2008 NASA 2004 Alpha Data, Columbia University - New York, 2005 Alpha Data, Columbia University - New York, 2005 specificity and urbanization ETH Studio Basel, 2012 dimensions of urbanization material production – production of built environment production of knowledge – regulation and representation production of meaning – socialisation and learning processes comparative analysis FCL module V: Urban Sociology Tokyo (Naomi Hanakata) Singapore (Team) Hong Kong / PRD (Tammy Kit Pit Wong) Kolkata (Pascal Kallenberger) Istanbul (Ozan Karaman) Lagos (Lindsay Sawyer) Paris (Christian Schmid) Mexico City (Monika Streule) Los Angeles (Ozan Karaman) urban comparative strategies • cannot compare (trap of singularities) • individualising • universalising • encompassing • variation finding • experimental comparisons (Robinson 2011) analysing urbanization: extended urban regions Kolkata Paris Mexico City patterns and pathways of urbanization Pathways: periodising the production of space mapping patterns of urbanization Switzerland – an urban portrait Diener, Herzog, Meili, de Meuron, Schmid 2005 Atlas Urbano de La Habana Peña Díaz, Schmid 2008, 2013 Atlas Urbano de La Habana (Jorge Peña Díaz, Christian Schmid) Patterns: defining urban configurations processes of urbanization (established) suburbanization periurbanization de-urbanization re-urbanization gentrification urban regeneration urban transformation urban restructuring Informal urbanism processes of urbanization (comparative) development of old and new centralities commodification of urban differences popular urbanisations consolidation of popular urbanisations mass housing production condominium development ordinary commuter zone the challenge of sustainable development