The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century

Martin J. Murray

doi:10.1017/9781316718438

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of the 'city' - or 'urbanism' as we know it - has experienced such profound mutations in both structure and form that the customary epistemological categories and prevailing conceptual frameworks that predominate in conventional urban theory are no longer capable of explaining the evolving patterns of city-making. Global urbanism has increasingly taken shape as vast, distended city-regions, where urbanizing landscapes are increasingly fragmented into discontinuous assemblages of enclosed enclaves characterized by global connectivity and concentrated wealth, on the one side, and distressed zones of neglect and impoverishment, on the other. These emergent patterns of what might be called enclave urbanism have gone hand-in-hand with the new modes of urban governance, where the crystallization of privatized regulatory regimes has effectively shielded wealthy enclaves from public oversight and interference.

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The Urbanism of Exception
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The Urbanism of Exception - Title page
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Copyright page
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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The Modern Metropolis and the Eclipse of Modernist City Building
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Part I - Setting the Stage
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1 - Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
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2 - The Shape of Cities to Come
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Distended Urban Form as the Template for Global Urbanism
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Part II - Aggregate Urbanism
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3 - Spatial Restructuring on a Global Scale
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Enclave Urbanism and the Fragmentation of Urban Space
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4 - Cities as an Assemblage of Enclaves
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Realizing the Expectations of Late Modernity
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Part III - Zone Formats and the Urbanism of Exception
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5 - Autonomous Zones and the Unbundling of Territorial Sovereignty
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6 - Typologies of Zones
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7 - Hybrid Zones and the Breakdown of Conventional Modalities of Urban Governance
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8 - An Urbanism of Exception
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Bibliography
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Index
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Contents

The Urbanism of Exception
pp i-ii

The Urbanism of Exception - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xiv

Acknowledgments
pp xv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-20

Part I - Setting the Stage
pp 21-90

1 - Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
pp 23-45

2 - The Shape of Cities to Come
pp 46-90

Part II - Aggregate Urbanism
pp 91-198

3 - Spatial Restructuring on a Global Scale
pp 93-146

4 - Cities as an Assemblage of Enclaves
pp 147-198

Part III - Zone Formats and the Urbanism of Exception
pp 199-314

5 - Autonomous Zones and the Unbundling of Territorial Sovereignty
pp 201-231

6 - Typologies of Zones
pp 232-276

7 - Hybrid Zones and the Breakdown of Conventional Modalities of Urban Governance
pp 277-300

8 - An Urbanism of Exception
pp 301-314

Bibliography
pp 315-390

Index
pp 391-403

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