Planetary Urbanisation: Decentering Perspectives on the Urban

Christian Schmid is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous publications on theories of the urban and of space, on Henri Lefebvre, on territorial urban development, and on the comparative analysis of urbanisation. Together with architects Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili and Pierre de Meuron he co-authored the book “Switzerland: an urban portrait”, a pioneering analysis of extended urbanisation. He currently works together with Neil Brenner (Harward GSD) on the theorisation and investigation of emergent formations of planetary urbanisation, and he leads together with Milica Topalovic (ETH Zürich) a project on the comparison of territories of extended urbanization.

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