Cities Reimagining the Urban

Name: Cities Reimagining the Urban
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ISBN: 9780745624143

ISBN-10: 0745624146

ISBN-13: 9780745624143

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift

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Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the countryside has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanisation as a way of life.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 4/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.01" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The Legibility of the Everyday City


Introduction


The New Urbanism in Context


The Flacirc;neur and Transitivity


Rhythms and Rhythmanalysis


Urban Footprints and Namings


A Basic Ontology



Propinquity and Flow in the City


Introduction


The Nostalgic City


Near and Far


Distanciated Communities


The Restless Site


Conclusion



Cities in a Distanciated Ecomony


Introduction


The Urbanised Economy


Cities as Sites


Conclusion



The Machinic City


Introduction


Circulation


The City of Passions


The Engineering of Certainty



Powerful Cities


Introduction


Diagrams of Power


Escape Attempts


But!!!


Conclusion



The Democratic City


Introduction


lsquo;Creating a Democratic Public'


Political City


Rights to the City: A Politics of the Commons


A Mobile Politics


Afterword: Testing New Ground


References


Index