Archipelagos

Cause if and insofar as 'strange' settlement formations of the kind I got to see on the return journey from Bhola, deep in the 'rural', correlate with the augumented movement of people, the narrative of urbanisation as process of concentration-extension is called into question. If other, decentring of even ex-centric, forces are impacting urban growth and reshuffling all levels of social space-the near (habitation), the middle (the city) and the far (state and its macro-level connections)-the city-hegemonic views that dominate urban studies must be abandoned once for all, and the new norm of production of space called by name.