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Sustainability and the City - Urban Poetics and Politics (Hardcover)
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Sustainability and the City - Urban Poetics and Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
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Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics contributes
to third-generation discourse on sustainable development by
considering, through a humanistic lens, theories and practices of
sustainability in a wide range of urban cultures. It demonstrates
cities' inextricability from discussions on sustainability because
not only is the world urbanizing at an unprecedented rate but also
cities are primary locations of the circulation of excess capital,
socioeconomic divisions and hierarchies, political resistance,
friction between human and non-human worlds, and the confluence of
art, policy, and identity formation in placemaking. With essays by
scholars working in a variety of fields-from architecture to
literature to music to sociology-this collection maintains that any
hope for achieving urban sustainability will require taking
seriously the ways in which cities are imagined. Efforts to make
cities sustainable must fully incorporate the humanities because
critical endeavors and creative expressions that fall within the
purview of the humanities are vital to closing the conceptual gulf,
as well as the practical gap, between human and non-human
conservation. Even if the environmental humanities embrace cities,
critics must ask whether coalescing the terms 'sustainability' and
'city' may actually obstruct human action to combat climate
change-which, from some angles, seems impending, self-imposed
apocalypse. To examine the urban turn, Sustainability and the City
attends to culture. Essays in the first part of the collection
approach urban sustainability from various disciplinary vantage
points to emphasize history, ideology, pedagogy, and critical
theory. The second part of the collection analyzes urban commons on
four different continents. Finally, the collection moves from a
diverse set of interpretations of on-the-ground urban phenomena to
a compilation of readings of sustainability in different media and
genres-sound art, drama, fiction, and film-set in, or evocative of,
cities. The collection carves out a place for artists and critics
to help realize social justice in cities, which generate remarkable
power, but power that is too often and too easily used
destructively, unfairly, and wastefully despite cities' unique
capacities to inspire and sustain humanity.
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