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The "Third Urban Revolution" *Final

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Evolving interpretations
• Cultural "revolutions" — concept generally associated with Gordan Childe (1950); Australian archeologist/anthropologist
Periods of dramatic changes in societal organizations
- Agricultural revolution — origins of agriculturally-based, civilized societies
- Urban Revolution — origin of cities
- Industrial Revolution — industrial production systems
Urban revolution
concept in urban studies has been increasingly viewed as a series of "urban revolutions"
Three urban revolutions
• First Urban revolution — associated with the rise of first civilizations (Neolithic era)
• Second Urban Revolution — associated with Industrial Revolution
- Modern Era Urban Revolution — late 1800s — 1940s
- Postmodern era Urban Revolution — 1950s — present
- Third Urban Revolution — associated with dominant urban population; globalization/information-based economies (21st Century)
Gildo Seisdedos, How to manage cities for the 21st Century
• "Third Urban Revolution"
- Continuing urbanization of global population in 21st century; majority urban population
- Rapid urbanization of population in "developing countries" (AKA "periphery," "Third World", etc.)
- Emerging problems with "unsustainability" of contemporary urban systems
How does Seisdedos use the term "the third urban revolution"
• Essentially applies term to incorporate interrelated processes with different manifestations at different scales:
- Global — majority of population is urban
- Global/developed world — unsustainable systems
- Developing world — rapid urbanization
Process of Postmodern urbanization in the periphery
- "pseudo-urbanization" (Palen = "overurbanization")
- Modern urbanization —> economic "pull" of cities
- Postmodern urbanization <— demographic "push" of rural areas
Product of Postmodern urbanization in the periphery
"Premature metropolis"
- Postmodern form of "peri-urban" development
• Idea that people on the periphery on cities aren't urban or suburban; caught in between
• rural <— peri-urban <—> suburban —> urban
- Shantytowns (AKA favelas, irregulares, invasion, slums, setc.)
- > 1 billion residents globally (Neza-Chalco-Itza barrio of Cd. Mexico > 1 million residents
Key characteristics of postmodern urbanization in the periphery
-• Informal housing (self-built/unauthorized/scrap materials)
-• Squatter development (illegal/unauthorized/unplanned)
• in situ accretion
-Mixed land use
-limited/lacking infastructure
-• poverty —> social problems
• informal economy
-political repression
Santa Marta, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
• Brazil's most famous favela
• 8000 population; approx. 2500 residences; 4 schools
• In pop culture
- They don't care about us — Michael Jackson
- Red Bull Desafio no Morro — downhill race
- Fast Five
• Pacifying Police Unit
• Rio Olympics 2016 favela tours
• Mira Dona marta — helipad/tourist viewpoint
• Funicular railway
Griffin & Ford Model
• model of cities in the developing world
• As these cities were initially founded, they were centered around a CBD/market "downtown", surrounding the CBD is "Zone of Maturity" that is familiar to developed cities and gentrified areas, then surrounding that is the "Zone of in Situ Accretion" due to the population boom of the 50s & 60s for ex. Dona Marta slowly improving a favela, then outside that is the periphery with the more recent squatter settlement from people moving to the outside of the city
- Superimposed on this pattern is the economy of the 21st century where industrial parks and retail centers are springing up and areas becoming gentrified
- Zones of disamenity are the flood planes of Tijuana and hillsides of Rio that are slowly becoming developed
• Form of Urban settlement in which there is no resemblance in the core countries of the world
- Will we look more like them or will they look more like us?
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