Extending gestures and global city-making: Analyzing extending urbanization at multiple scales

Abstract

The strength of the analysis of extended urbanization proposed in Simone et al.'s (2023) ‘Inhabiting the Extensions’ resides in its fascinating ability to bring together a focus on micro gestures and individual decisions with a structural analysis of global capital flows, geopolitics, and climate change. The collective work of ethnographically diving in nine locations across the world, and bringing together these reflections, generated a rich and complex understanding of city-making processes through spatial and temporal extensions.