Brenner, Neil; Schmid, Christian - In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38 (2014) 3, pp. 731-755
Foreboding declarations about contemporary urban trends pervade early twenty-first century academic, political and journalistic discourse. Among the most widely recited is the claim that we now live in an ‘urban age’ because, for the first time in human history, more than half the world's...