What is a city? What is the urban? Fundamental questions of urban research are still many-voiced and controversial. With a focus on urbanization processes, socio-spatial transformations can be described that go far beyond administrative city boundaries. But how can local everyday urban experiences be linked to a global perspective on urbanization?

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Streule, Monika (2019) Wo beginnt und endet Mexiko-Stadt? Stadtethnologie und metropolitane Urbanisierungsprozesse. Bulletin der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften 25, Dossier: Raum – Espace: Zugänge, Praktiken, Kulturen. Bern: SAGW, 36–38. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3538857