ABSTRACT
There is much empirical evidence that the planet is increasingly becoming an urban construct. Over the last couple of decades, the scope and speed of urbanization have increased exponentially, pushing the boundaries of what scholars such as Merrifield (2012) define as planetary urbanization (see also Urban Age Project 2007, 2011). This phenomenon can be understood as a relentless growth of urban fabric across the world: fabric that covers and underpins the surface of the Earth, reshaping nature-society relations with substantial environmental, economic and social impacts.
