The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City

McFarlane, C.

doi:10.1177/0309132515608694

The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City

McFarlane, C.

Authors

Professor Colin Mcfarlane colin.mcfarlane@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

As the world increasingly urbanizes, the imaginaries, conceptions and politics of urban density will become increasingly urgent for research, policy, practice and activism. Density is a keyword in the history of how the city has been conceived and understood, and is firmly back on the global urban agenda. However, we lack sustained studies of how the geographies of density have been defined, lived, and contested. This paper develops a topological approach to urban density, considers key ways in which density has been politicized, and examines an emerging research area that understands the life and politics of density as ‘intensive heterogeneities’.

Citation

McFarlane, C. (2016). The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City. Progress in Human Geography, 40(5), 629-648. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515608694

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Aug 12, 2015
Online Publication Date	Oct 7, 2015
Publication Date	Oct 1, 2016
Deposit Date	Aug 12, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Sep 30, 2015
Journal	Progress in Human Geography
Print ISSN	0309-1325
Electronic ISSN	1477-0288
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	40
Issue	5
Pages	629-648
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515608694
Keywords	Density, Intensive heterogeneity, Topography, Topology, Urban theory.

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McFarlane, C. (2016) 'The geographies of urban density : topology, politics and the city.', Progress in human geography., 40 (5). pp. 629-648. Copyright © 2015 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.