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Revisiting Urban Theories: Their Impacts on the Developing World's Urbanization

Revisiting Urban Theories: Their Impacts on the Developing World's Urbanization

Umar Benna, Indo Benna
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522556466|ISBN10: 152255646X|EISBN13: 9781522556473
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch013
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Benna, Umar, and Indo Benna. "Revisiting Urban Theories: Their Impacts on the Developing World's Urbanization." E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 279-300. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch013

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Benna, U. & Benna, I. (2018). Revisiting Urban Theories: Their Impacts on the Developing World's Urbanization. In I. Management Association (Ed.), E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 279-300). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch013

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Benna, Umar, and Indo Benna. "Revisiting Urban Theories: Their Impacts on the Developing World's Urbanization." In E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 279-300. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5646-6.ch013

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Abstract

Urban theory has been dominated by the accumulation of social theories and has significant impact on global urbanization. The urban is becoming more complex and more global due to the contesting technological, political, social, economic and environmental forces. These disciplinary forces may be added to the global shifts in population and political power from rural to urban and from the developed to the developing nations, creating new global challenges. To cope with these challenges, the prevailing urban theories need a shift. By critically revisiting urban theories and testing them against emerging challenges, this chapter is advocating for and pointing to a new direction. The chapter revisits urban sociological theories, those global theories advocating planetary urbanization, the models responding to glocal forces as well as those promoting world systems. This is followed by an outline of the proposal for Activity Theoretical Framework. Possible future research direction for the inclusive and universal urbanization is identified.

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