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Fragments of the City - Making and Remaking Urban Worlds (Paperback)
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Fragments of the City - Making and Remaking Urban Worlds (Paperback)
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Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially,
and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and
forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and
provocations for change. In Fragments of the City, Colin McFarlane
examines such fragments, what they are and how they come to matter
in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the
city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those
living on the economic margins, the city is often experienced as a
set of fragments. Much of what low-income residents deal with on a
daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through
urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice. In
this book, McFarlane explores infrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala,
and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee
struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong Kong
and New York. Fragments surface as material things, as forms of
knowledge, as writing strategies. They are used in efforts to
politicize the city and in urban writing to capture life and change
in the world's major cities. Fragments of the City surveys the role
of fragments in how urban worlds are understood, revealed, written,
and changed.
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