Postcolonial urbanization in the concept of Goran Therborn

The article offers an overview of Goran Therborn's sociological concept, which examines the relationship between such processes as modernization and urbanization. The researcher pays attention to the capitals, which, from his point of view, by their architecture and organization of space, represent the history of societies, including the features of their movement towards modernity. Therborn distinguishes four types of capitals, depending on which modernization path was taken by each country. The article focuses on colonial and post-colonial capitals, which the researcher identifies as a separate group. To identify their specifics, a brief overview of the other three groups identified by the sociologist is given European capitals, settler capitals and reactive modernization capitals, but it is colonial and post-colonial capitals that are considered in the most detail.