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Seeing Like a City (Paperback)
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Seeing Like a City (Paperback)
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Loot Price R543
Discovery Miles 5 430
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Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things
made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of
countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of
larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.
Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of
symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is
the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of
these different elements that make a city. Such a view locates
urban outcomes and influences in the character of these networks,
which together power urban life, allocating resources, shaping
social opportunities, maintaining order and simply enabling life.
More than the silent stage on which other powers perform, such
networks represent the essence of the city. They also form an
important political project, a politics of small interventions with
large effects. The increasing evidence for an Anthropocene bears
out the way in which humanity has stamped its footprint on the
planet by constructing urban forms that act as systems for
directing life in ways that create both immense power and immense
constraint.
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