ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what the qualitative leap or societal transition after industrial urbanisation might really mean, and explores Henri Lefebvre notions in the light of the knowledge on urban processes in selected places. The contemporary logic of urban processes differs markedly from the 19th and 20th century, warranting approaches and analytic concepts. The countless local and place-based but essentially open, emergent and scalable processes are the drivers of urban society and global urbanisation, understood as a qualitative change from industrial to urban logic. The agile place-shaping may be even more important for the emerging urban society than traditional processes of place-making that require long planning and big public investments. In the emerging, arrival and sometimes shrinking places people shape their futures and our common urban future. The modes of controlling-producing mobility practices and patterns in top-down-bottom-up approaches produce distinctive rhythms, pacing the environment through an ensemble of various power relations.
