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October 8, 2025Development and ChangeOpen Access

The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation

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NBNeil BrennerSGSwarnabh Ghosh

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This article uncovers the role of sociometabolic processes in urban life and their implications for sustainability strategies.

Key Points

  • Capitalist urbanization transforms cities into strategic nodes that generate toxic waste and social dispossession.
  • The analysis shows a dialectical relationship between throughput ecologies and exhaustion ecologies in urban areas.
  • Cities are locked into carbon-intensive systems, while renewable energy often supplements fossil fuel consumption.
  • Urban sustainability often perpetuates eco-apartheid, creating privileged enclaves amidst ongoing extraction and waste.

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Brenner et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6d7971ffa7aa7d63d17dchttps://doi.org/10.1111/dech.70015
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