Introduction to the latin american geographic metromarxism: Perspectives on the city, the urban and the urbanization

Abstract

Urban theories face a crisis from the trend to the overall development of society, so some of its foundational categories such as city, urban and urbanization are being challenged. In Latin America the character of spatial widowhood that characterizes urban critical theories is an obstacle to address these questions, so the purpose of this article is to ac­count for different categories of city, urban and urbanization proposed from what it is called as a Latin American geographical metromarxism. From a review of five authors it concludes that theorizing on the production of urban spaces has moved from a structur­alist approach to a variety of less dogmatic and more open to the theoretical and meth­odological experimentation dialectical Marxism.