Carl Nightingale (University at Buffalo)

Our Urban Planet in Theory and History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Element uses insights from 'deep history' to set the stage for a 'theory by verb' elaborating the many paradoxes of humans' 6,000-year gamble with the Urban Condition and explaining cities' own intrinsic capacity to outrun their own theorizability.

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Produktdetails

• Elements in Global Urban History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 134g
• ISBN-13: 9781009321808
• ISBN-10: 1009321803
• Artikelnr.: 70253511

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Matters I: Space, time, and power
Preliminary Matters II: Global urban history, 'planetary urbanization'" and the 'Anthropocene'
Preliminary Matters III: The 'our' in 'Our urban planet'
proposition 1. Start deep, not total: humans, space, and power
Proposition 2. Energy in: urban hinterlands
Proposition 3. Cities and power: to produce + to amplify
Proposition 4. Predictably unpredictable: to deploy
Proposition 5. Power out: urban forelands
Proposition 6. Polyrhythmic plotlines: urban temporality
Proposition 7. Of morality tales, visions, and miracles: urban futures
References.