ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on ecocultural responses to transformations of the city-region during the ecoculturalcurrently occuring in the developing world. It provides an overview of the second urbanization wave and its impacts on the global South, followed by a brief discussion of the process of reconfiguring the complex relations between people, materials, nature and cultures. The chapter is converted into two types of urbanization such as, The first urbanization wave took over 200 years, from 1750 to 1950. Over this period, there was an increase in the number of urban dwellers in Europe and North America, from 15 million to 423 million people. The second urbanization wave is likely to take less than 100 years and is occurring in developing countries. The primary aim of this chapter has been to demonstrate that there is a wide range of emergent ecocultural assemblages within and outside the city-regions of the global South.
