Author: Grga Bašić, Neil Brenner, Mariano Gomez Luque, Nikos KatsikisHow can we map the urbanisation of the planet in an era of climate breakdown? The Urban Theory Lab's 'Data-Spheres of Planetary Urbanization' confronts this question by assembling a series of experimental visualisations of the worldwide urban fabric. This book reverses the mainstream, city centric perspective on urbanisation, showing, instead, that the world of contemporary urbanisation encompasses much of the planet, including apparently remote areas, wildlands, and oceans. Cities are not only producers of value, but entropic black holes that consume surpluses produced elsewhere and project waste back into the planetary biosphere. Non-city spaces are, correspondingly, the metabolic bases of planetary urbanisation.The title shows the impact of planetary urbanisation in 500 beautiful and revealing spatial data visualisations, highlights the importance of operational landscapes beyond the city, and assembles theoretical and methodological texts by the Urban Theory Lab as well as critical commentaries.With a foreword by Jason W. Moore, an afterword by Alexander Arroyo, and contributions by Martín Arboleda, Danika Cooper, Kian Goh, Julie Michelle Klinger, Roi Salgueiro Barrio, and Hashim Sarkis.ISBN 9783986122706. JOVIS. pb. 316 pages. 500 colour ills. 22 x 22 cm.available to order
