Sub/Urbanism: Integrating Recent Trends in Urban Theory
Vortrag von Roger Keil beim Think&Drink Kolloquium //28. April 2014 // 18:00 Uhr
Auch im aktuellen Sommersemester lädt der Lehrbereich Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie und das Georg-Simmel-Zentrum für Metropolenforschung gemeinsam zum Think & Drink Kolloquium alle Interessierten ein und präsentieren eine Reihe hochklassige internationale Gastreferenten. Den Anfang mach Prof. Dr. Roger Keil (University of York). Im Anschluss an den Vortrag (ca. 45 Minuten) wird es wie immer Raum für Diskussionen und auch Gelegenheit zum persönlichen Austausch mit dem Vortragenden und allen Teilnehmenden bei Getränken und Snacks geben.
This presentation engages urban theory through a discussion of real existing suburbanization. Urbanization, long been imagined as a concentric expansion of centrality (of space, functions, economies), is undergoing an explosive inversion at the present time. This has been picked up in a variety of recent debates in urban theory. In the traditional narrative, making the city more central and making the world more urban went hand in hand. Lefebvre’s Urban Revolution has famously depicted the process as a linear evolution from 0 to 100 percent. Chicago School centricity and L.A. School postmetropolitanism have set the stage for a continuing conversation. Oringinally US-centric, this debate has recently been resituated in wider concerns for new geographies of urban theory and ‘planetary’, ‘ordinary’ and ‘postcolonial’ configurations (to mention a few of the better known debates). This presentation originates in these discursive interventions but adds that global urbanization today is actually global suburbanization. We now see the making of new processes of urbanization springing from the margins and peripheries which defy the traditional dependencies of outsides from insides, suburbs from cities, and which test our everyday and theoretical understanding of the dialectic of the urban process.
Das Kolloquium findet in der Vorlesungszeit immer Montags von 18 bis 20 Uhr in Raum 002 in der Universitätsstraße 3b statt.
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