added planetary urbanization summary

Author: lilydemet

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+                        Citing the "far-reaching implosions and explosions of the urban at all spatial scales" - namely "the creation of new scales of urbanization", "the blurring and rearticulation of urban territories",  "the disintegration of the hinterland", and "the end of the wilderness" (450) — Brenner and Schmid echo Lefebvre in claiming a contemporary state of <i>planetary urbanization</i>. 
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+                            "Today, the urban represents an increasingly worldwide condition in which all political-economic relations, infrastructural geographies and socio-environmental landscapes are enmeshed. 
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+                            This situation of <i>planetary urbanization</i> means, paradoxically, that even spaces that lie well beyond the traditional city cores and suburban peripheries...have become integral parts of a worldwide urban fabric...political-economic spaces can no longer be treated as if they were composed of discrete, distinct, bounded and universal types of setlement" (451).
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