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Title: Intermediality, Architecture, And the Politics of Urbanity
Author : CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Release Date : January 01, 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
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Marc Auge's designation of "non-spaces" in his 1995 book Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity defines urban space characterized by the confluence of anonymous beings inhabiting the large cities of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. "Non-spaces" are not lived spaces but they generate daily reality. For more than a century New York City was the greatest stage of our contemporary representations: a symbol of modern human greatness drama and world showcase of its potential for development (Berman 302). But let us recall Federico Garcia Lorca's transit through the city and how, in his Poeta en Nueva York, offers an unsettling portrait of life there. Garcia Lorca focuses on the metropolitan crowd, the streets, and on spaces emerging from modernity where he sees human suffering and the danger for the survival of human values (on aspects of the modern European city, see, e.g., Jerram). In recent decades and owing to extensive urban development, the rural world has also become urbanized. At present 1,200 million people live in towns of 100,000 inhabitants, which amounts to one third of the world's urban population, with 600 million people already living in places with half a million people (see, e.g., Zabalbeascoa). This offers a rotund figure: half of the world's urban population lives in concentrations of less than half a million inhabitants. This process of transformation affects even small cities, with around 3,500 million people in their urban centres, that is, 50% of the world's population, a figure expected to rise over the next four decades. Impressive transformations when compared with half-a-hundred cities on the planet reaching half-a-million inhabitants in the 1980s. There are 54 cities with more than 5 million people. China and the East are those who have experienced an unprecedented urbanizing boom and economic development, to the extent that in China there are currently a 134 new cities. Following current projections, in 2050 cities with more than 10 million people will pass from 21 to 29, and 10% of the urban population will inhabit them, while cities with a population between one million and five million will pass to 509 during the same period (120 more, which will gather 22% of the world's urban population). If in 1900 only 10% of the world population lived in large cities, in 2050, 70% of the people on Earth will do so, while only 14% is expected to live in the country within the developed world. The world's most populous cities are in this order: Tokyo, Mexico City, Mumbai, New York, Sao Paulo, Delhi, Kalkota, Jakarta, Buenos Aires, and Dhaka.