Theory

Planetary Urbanisation

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Brenner and Schmid's thesis that urbanisation has become a planetary condition with no constitutive outside; the dossier re-reads Superstudio's Continuous Monument and Archizoom's No-Stop City as accurate diagrams of this condition.

Settlement Infrastructure Migration

Details

Introduced
2010s

Sources

  1. Neil Brenner (ed.). Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. Jovis, 2014.

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First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Planetary Urbanisation." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theory/planetary-urbanisation/. Accessed July 17, 2026.