Murray Bookchin

From Urbanization to Cities (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Democratic Municipalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this far-reaching work, social ecologist and historian Murray Bookchin takes the reader on a voyage through the evolution of the city. Cities are not just monumental social and political facts, they are tremendous ecological facts as well. Far from seeing them as an inherent adversary of the natural world, though, Bookchin uncovers a hidden history of cities as "eco-communities" that fostered diversity and interconnection, living in balance with and awareness of nature. Just as ecosystems rely on participation and mutualism, so must cities-and their citizens-rediscover these qualities, establishing harmonious, ethical social relations as a basis for a healthy ecological relationship to the natural world.

Published for the one hundredth anniversary of Murray Bookchin's birth, Urbanization Without Cities is the first in a series of his books that AK Press is reprinting and bringing to a new audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849354394
• Artikelnr.: 62736336

Autorenporträt

Murray Bookchin (19292006) was an active voice in ecology, anarchist, and communalist movements for more than fifty years. His groundbreaking essay, Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1964), was one of the first to assert that capitalism's grow-or-die ethos was on a dangerous collision course with the natural world that would include the devastation of the planet by global warming. Bookchin is the author of The Ecology of Freedom, among two dozen other books.