Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas - Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City (Paperback)

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century. It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster and that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in the Americas in which forms of play and imaginations of catastrophe intersect in the vertical field. Schifani explores a diverse range of resistant urban interventions, imagining the city as on the verge of or enmeshed in catastrophe. She also presents a model of ecocriticism that addresses aesthetic practices and forms of play in the urban environment. Tracing the historical roots of such tactics as well as mapping their hopes for the future will help the reader to locate the impacts of climate change not only on the physical space of the city, but also on the epistemological and aesthetic strategies that cities can help to engender. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and the broad and interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Environmental Humanities
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Allison M. Schifani
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	140
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-51936-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Image processing > Computer animation Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-367-51936-4
Barcode:	9780367519360

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