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The Hinterland Urbanised?
Author(s) -
Brenner Neil
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2077
Subject(s) - urbanization , urban theory , key (lock) , sociology , rural area , political science , economic geography , regional science , geography , civil engineering , economic growth , law , engineering , economics , computer science , computer security
What defines the urban? And can the non‐urban necessarily always be classified as rural? Neil Brenner , Director of the Urban Theory Lab at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, reflects on the lack of an overarching theory to describe these realms, and argues that what we call the countryside or the hinterland has become key to the process of capitalist urbanisation.