This volume provides an invaluable resource for advanced-level students of place and space in philosophy, geography, sociology and urban studies. It includes coverage of all the major terms, theories and concepts, examines specific cities and historical contexts, and explores future directions for a philosophy of the city.
This volume provides an invaluable resource for advanced-level students of place and space in philosophy, geography, sociology and urban studies. It includes coverage of all the major terms, theories and concepts, examines specific cities and historical contexts, and explores future directions for a philosophy of the city.
Keith Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania. His publications include: The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy (1999); Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia (2011); and House, Home and Society (2016), co-authored with Rowland Atkinson. Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Latrobe University. He was founder, and until 2005, Director, of the University of Tasmania's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. His many publications include Heidegger and the Thinking of Place (2012), Heidegger's Topology (2006) and Place and Experience (2007).
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Introduction Part I: City Concepts 1. [TBC], Andrew Benjamin 2. Cities: Where the wild things are, Wendy Steele 3. Capitalism, Form and the Philosophy of the Metropolis, David Cunningham 4. The self-organized city, Simon Sadler 5. Solar Le Corbusier, Allan Stoekl Part II: City Histories 6. Interrogating Myo: conceptions of and Practices in Cities in Burma Myanmar, Jayde Roberts 7. 'Escaping Mediocrity': The Rise of the Suburban Villa in Early Renaissance Florence, Katie Campbell 8. Target, theatre or resource? Concepts of the city in organised violence, Martin Coward 9. The City and Utopia: South Asian Imaginaries and Practices, Smriti Srinivas 10. Tale of Two Cities, Pratyush Shankar Part III: City Landscapes 11. Modernist Architecture and Sense of Place, Ingrid Stefanovic 11. The City Foreclosed: Walter Benjamin's Arcades and the Anti-image, Jessica Dubow 12. The New Psychogeographers: Gender, Edgeless Edgelands, and the City, Lauren Elkin Part IV: City Futures 14. Smart City Prospects - Envisioning a Future of Control, Philipp Späth 15. Edge City: Reflections on Anthropocenic Urbanism, Eduardo Mendieta 16. Philosophies of commensuration, value and worth in the future city, Michael Keith 17. [TBA], Rosi Braidotti Conclusion Further Reading Index
Introduction Part I: City Concepts 1. [TBC], Andrew Benjamin 2. Cities: Where the wild things are, Wendy Steele 3. Capitalism, Form and the Philosophy of the Metropolis, David Cunningham 4. The self-organized city, Simon Sadler 5. Solar Le Corbusier, Allan Stoekl Part II: City Histories 6. Interrogating Myo: conceptions of and Practices in Cities in Burma Myanmar, Jayde Roberts 7. 'Escaping Mediocrity': The Rise of the Suburban Villa in Early Renaissance Florence, Katie Campbell 8. Target, theatre or resource? Concepts of the city in organised violence, Martin Coward 9. The City and Utopia: South Asian Imaginaries and Practices, Smriti Srinivas 10. Tale of Two Cities, Pratyush Shankar Part III: City Landscapes 11. Modernist Architecture and Sense of Place, Ingrid Stefanovic 11. The City Foreclosed: Walter Benjamin's Arcades and the Anti-image, Jessica Dubow 12. The New Psychogeographers: Gender, Edgeless Edgelands, and the City, Lauren Elkin Part IV: City Futures 14. Smart City Prospects - Envisioning a Future of Control, Philipp Späth 15. Edge City: Reflections on Anthropocenic Urbanism, Eduardo Mendieta 16. Philosophies of commensuration, value and worth in the future city, Michael Keith 17. [TBA], Rosi Braidotti Conclusion Further Reading Index
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