Urban and Environmental Development Issues

Collective movements operating at local, national, regional levels are contesting the increasing global trend of urbanization as a threat to environmental sustainability. These movements have become central to the economic, social, cultural and political contexts of environmental management. They confront the problematic activities of dominant financial actors whose activities mold urban spaces. They highlight the importance of subjective engagements with actual physical space that increasingly takes the form of individual actions. The individualization of collective action brings forward new experimental spaces that suggest the building of a new sociability as they contest urban development and the risk it poses for environmental sustainability.