This article contributes to debates on the decentering of urban research by critically examining emergent forms of housing in the mining municipality of Canaã dos Carajás, Brazil, beyond the dominant lexicons that have emerged from the country's metropolises. The notion of ‘beyond the metropolis’ is offered here as a geographically situated, conceptual placeholder that empirically grounds calls for dislocating urban research. I draw upon fieldwork conducted in Canaã in 2018 and 2019, after the construction of the largest open-pit mine in human history, which attracted tens of thousands of migrants and more than doubled Canaã's population in five years, creating a severe housing crisis. By looking closely at how regional developers, local authorities, mining giant Vale as well as Amazonian majorities came up with their own ‘solutions’ to the housing problem they faced, I foreground the role of ‘extractivism’ and ‘extensions’ in driving and shaping urbanization and inhabitation—beyond the metrocentric emphasis on agglomerative dynamics driven by industrialization and rural-to-urban migration. This twofold conceptual grammar grounded in non-metropolitan Amazonia is absent from current housing debates and illustrates the generative analytical potential inherent in the move beyond the metropolis.

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大都市之外的住房：亚马逊河流域城市的采掘主义和扩建

本文通过批判性地审视巴西卡纳多斯卡拉哈斯采矿市的新兴住房形式，超越该国大都市出现的主导词汇，为关于城市研究去中心化的辩论做出了贡献。“超越大都市”的概念在这里作为一个地理位置上的概念占位符提出，它从经验上为城市研究的呼吁提供了基础。我借鉴了 2018 年和 2019 年在卡纳进行的实地调查，当时人类历史上最大的露天矿建成，吸引了数万名移民，使卡纳人口在五年内增加了一倍多，造成了严重的住房危机。通过仔细研究地区开发商、地方当局、矿业巨头淡水河谷以及亚马逊地区的大多数人如何针对他们面临的住房问题提出自己的“解决方案”，我突出了“榨取主义”和“延伸”在推动和塑造住房问题方面的作用。城市化和居住——超越以大都市为中心的工业化和农村人口向城市迁移驱动的集聚动力。这种基于非大都市亚马逊流域的双重概念语法在当前的住房辩论中并不存在，并且说明了超越大都市的内在生成分析潜力。