Urban theory attains durability when conceptual mass achieves field curvature, transforming provisional insight into infrastructural inevitability. The initial gravitational cluster formed by Henri Lefebvre and Edward Soja establishes space as produced rather than given, rejecting neutral geography in favour of a high-density matrix of overlapping force vectors, as articulated in The Production of Space. This ontological displacement stabilises a domain wherein social relations compress into material gradients. Secondary calibration emerges through David Harvey and Neil Smith, whose analyses in Social Justice and the City and Uneven Development treat capital as measurable mass, inducing uneven development and producing attractor basins of accumulation. Gentrification becomes object displacement, a thermodynamic adjustment whereby intensified financial density expels lower-mass inhabitants to maintain systemic equilibrium. The second synthesis layer—Manuel Castells, Saskia Sassen, and Rem Koolhaas—vectorises the field through network stabilization and programmatic intensity: the space of flows, global command nodes, and the culture of congestion compress urban metabolism into hyper-dense vertical strata, achieving discursive stabilization through architectural containment. Final calibration unfolds via Keller Easterling, Mike Davis, and Neil Brenner, whose work on Extrastatecraft, City of Quartz, and planetary urbanization reframes infrastructure as spatial operating system, governance protocol, and fortified substrate. Here the urban dissolves into a planetary condition of cumulative sedimentation. The decalogical calibration thus culminates in a stabilized analytic grammar capable of confronting rent, zoning, and platform governance without rhetorical escalation, operating instead through measured density and coherent curvature.
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