Urbanization of the Amazon A Cartographic Research Analysis
Produced for the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design by Leif Estrada
Nighttime Lights
the accepted concept of agglomeration
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre anticipated a situation of “generalized urbanization” in which an “urban fabric” would be extended to encompass the entire planet. More recently, geographer Edward Soja declared that “every square inch of the world is urbanized to some degree.” While the changing morphology and scale of urbanized regions has attracted considerable attention among urban scholars, the worldwide “urban fabric” postulated by Lefebvre and Soja remains poorly understood. Building on previous work on planetary urbanization in the Urban Theory Lab, this research explores the hypothesis of complete urbanization with reference to the “extreme territory” of the Amazon that is normally not considered to contain urban elements.
Globale Information Cables
first global infrastructure that established connectivity
Global Air Connectivity
late 20th century global air travel
Global Air Connectivity present global air travel
Global Internet Connectivity
late 20th century global internet network with that time’s global air network
Global Internet Connectivity
present global internet network with the current global air network
Social Media Connectivity
early 21st century’s social media network in relation to air and “cities of agglomeration”
Current Global Connectivity
site of intervention in relation to the global network of connectivity
ACTO
The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, that promotes the sustainable development of the Amazonian Biome. Established in 1978.
The Amazonian Biome
Defined by the area of landcover, in which the biome is distrbuted amongst the 9 jurisdictional nations that govern its development.
Airports
Seaports
Information Cable Landing Sites
Mineral Deposits from Extraction
Natural Gas Reserves
Crude Oil Reserves
“Enclosures�
national parks closed off from resource extrations and developments
Rail
Local roads
Transnational highways
Constructed and Proposed IIRSA Transnational highways
Existing and Poposed IIRSA pipelines
Existing and Proposed IIRSA Information Cables
Amazonian-Global Connectivity by 2050
Global Fuel and Energy Reserves
Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production and Consumption Logistics
Economic Growth Pre and Post-IIRSA
Roraima - Regional Scale
Regional Site of Roraima
Avanรงa Brasil Infrastructures
Connection of Projective IIRSA Pipelines (for Natural Gas)
Urbanization of the Amazon A Cartographic Research Analysis Produced for the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design | Spring 2014 by Leif Estrada