Spaces of Extraction, Metropolitan Explosions: Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Boom in Latin America

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 96-112

  Arboleda, Martín ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

commodity boom; Henri Lefebvre; Latin America; neo extractivism; planetary urbanization

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; COMMODITY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PUBLIC SPACE; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84987811451     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12290     Document Type: Article

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