Keywords
urban space
urbanization
Marxism
urban theory
urban geography
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Abstract
Urban theories face a crisis from the trend to the overall development of society, so some of its foundational categories such as city, urban and urbanization are being challenged. In Latin America the character of spatial widowhood that characterizes urban critical theories is an obstacle to address these questions, so the purpose of this article is to account for different categories of city, urban and urbanization proposed from what it is called as a Latin American geographical metromarxism. From a review of five authors it concludes that theorizing on the production of urban spaces has moved from a structuralist approach to a variety of less dogmatic and more open to the theoretical and methodological experimentation dialectical MarxismThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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