The landscape approach to planetary urbanization: beyond the planetary urbanization approach

While the term ‘landscape’ consistently appears in the argumentation of planetary urbanization, it remains an under-conceptualized signifier in this theory. This is a missed opportunity. Written by scholars who study landscape, this paper scrutinizes the planetary urbanization approach by adding the ‘landscape perspective’. The article offers an analytical framework and tools to unpack contemporary processes of extended urbanization in a more nuanced way by elaborating six concepts: peri-urbanization, political ecologies, representations, communities, place practices, and stewardship. We argue that bringing the landscape approach into dialogue with planetary urbanization enables this theory to be better applicable.