Professor Colin Mcfarlane colin.mcfarlane@durham.ac.uk
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As the world increasingly urbanizes, the imaginaries, conceptions and politics of urban density will become increasingly urgent for research, policy, practice and activism. Density is a keyword in the history of how the city has been conceived and understood, and is firmly back on the global urban agenda. However, we lack sustained studies of how the geographies of density have been defined, lived, and contested. This paper develops a topological approach to urban density, considers key ways in which density has been politicized, and examines an emerging research area that understands the life and politics of density as ‘intensive heterogeneities’.
McFarlane, C. (2016). The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City. Progress in Human Geography, 40(5), 629-648. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515608694
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 12, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 7, 2015 |
Publication Date | Oct 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Aug 12, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 30, 2015 |
Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
Print ISSN | 0309-1325 |
Electronic ISSN | 1477-0288 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 40 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 629-648 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515608694 |
Keywords | Density, Intensive heterogeneity, Topography, Topology, Urban theory. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1433973 |
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McFarlane, C. (2016) 'The geographies of urban density : topology, politics and the city.', Progress in human geography., 40 (5). pp. 629-648. Copyright © 2015 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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