Perspectives on urban theories

TL;DR

This paper synthesizes diverse urban theories from a multidisciplinary program, highlighting key principles and situating them within the broader international literature on urbanization.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive synthesis of urban theories based on a multidisciplinary program and situates them within the global research landscape.

Findings

Identification of key principles in urban theories

Integration of diverse disciplinary perspectives

Contextualization within international urban research

Abstract

At the end of the five years of work in our GeoDiverCity program, we brought together a diversity of authors from different disciplines. Each person was invited to present an important question about the theories and models of urbanization. They are representative of a variety of currents in urban research. Rather than repeat here the contents of all chapters, we propose two ways to synthesize the scientific contributions of this book. In a first part we replace them in relation to a few principles that were experimented in our program, and in a second part we situate them with respect to a broader view of international literature on these topics.