Essays about: "rural-futurism"

Found 1 essay containing the word rural-futurism.

  1. 1. Wrong Side of the Ridge: Charting the Urban Fabric of the Countryside

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Oscar Damerham; [2017]
    Keywords : countryside; flâneur; Planetary Urbanisation; extended urbanisation; methodological cityism; phenomenology; rural-futurism; villages;

    Abstract : Echoing through the lecture theatres, conference halls and pages of the contemporary Urban Studies discourse is the oft-repeated refrain that today over half the world?s population live in urban areas, and that by 2050 this proportion is expected to be upwards of 70%. The place of the leftover 50% of people inhabiting a vast and seemingly forgotten 98% of the planet?s rural territory is externalised, apparently lying outside the purview of marching urbanisation. READ MORE