Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
|
Buy Now
Plough Quarterly No. 23 - In Search of a City (Paperback)
Loot Price: R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
You Save: R39
(14%)
|
|
Plough Quarterly No. 23 - In Search of a City (Paperback)
(sign in to rate)
List price R280
Loot Price R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
You Save R39 (14%)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
The future of humanity is urban. It might seem a bad move for a
magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities.
Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist community
that originated in a back-to-the-land movement and still has the
whiff of hayfield and woodlot to it. Why not stick to what you're
good at? Why jump lanes? Because the future of humanity, pretty
clearly, is urban. Urbanization is arguably the biggest change of
habitat our species has ever undergone. For anyone who cares about
the common good of humanity, then, cities need to matter. The
modern city is an electrifying concentration of creativity, energy,
and cultural dynamism. It's also still the "cauldron of unholy
loves" that Saint Augustine discovered in Carthage one and a half
millennia ago. It's the place where the cruelties of mammon, the
hubris of power, and the perversions of lust manifest themselves
most crassly. But cities have also given birth to culture and
community and to remarkable movements of revival and renewal. In
this issue, visit: - Belfast with Jenny McCartney - New York City
with James Macklin - Medellin with Adriano Cirino - Pittsburgh with
Brandon McGinley - Guatemala City with Jose Corpas - Philadelphia
with Clare Coffey - Chicago with John Thornton Jr. - Paris with
Jason Landsel You'll also find: - Insights on cities from Jane
Jacobs, Eberhard Arnold, Augustine, and Philip Britts - reviews of
books by Jonathan Foiles, Bethany McKinney Fox, J. Malcolm Garcia,
Tatiana Schlossberg, Tim Gautreaux, Philip Bess, and Frederic
Morton - art by Gail Brodholt, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Ben Ibebe,
Brian Peterson, Chota, Raphael, Gertrude Hermes, Valentino Belloni,
Tony Taj, and Aristarkh Lentulov Plough Quarterly features stories,
ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action.
Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book
reviews, and art to help you put Jesus' message into practice and
find common cause with others.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|