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'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that
seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times' Best Books
of the Year 'Startlingly timely, authoritatively researched, and
electrifyingly written.' Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes:
The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Quarantine
has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood.
It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates
through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered
infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for
moral and mythic ills, quarantine means waiting to see if something
hidden inside of us will be revealed. Until Proven Safe tracks the
history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the
story of emergency isolation through time and space - from the
crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean to the hallways of the
CDC, to the corporate giants hoping to disrupt the widespread
quarantine imposed by Covid-19 before the next pandemic hits
through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. Yet quarantine is
more than just a medical tool: Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
drop deep into the Earth to tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility
beneath the New Mexican desert, strip down to nothing but
protective Tyvek suits to see plants stricken with a disease that
threatens the world's wheat supply, and meet NASA's Planetary
Protection Officer tasked with saving the Earth from
extraterrestrial infections. The result is part travelogue, part
intellectual history - a book as compelling as it is definitive,
and one that could not be more urgent or timely.
Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and
misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it
operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are
considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor
for moral and mythic ills, quarantine means waiting to see if something
hidden inside of us will be revealed.
Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around
the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and
space – from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean to the
hallways of the CDC, to the corporate giants hoping to disrupt the
widespread quarantine imposed by Covid-19 before the next pandemic hits
through surveillance and algorithmic prediction.
Yet quarantine is more than just a medical tool: Geoff Manaugh and
Nicola Twilley drop deep into the Earth to tour a nuclear-waste
isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, strip down to
nothing but protective Tyvek suits to see plants stricken with a
disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply, and meet NASA’s
Planetary Protection Officer tasked with saving the Earth from
extraterrestrial infections.
The result is part travelogue, part intellectual history – a book as
compelling as it is definitive, and one that could not be more urgent
or timely.
At the heart of Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City is an
unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes
of robbers. From experts on both sides of the law, readers learn to
understand the city as an arena of possible tunnels and picked
locks and architecture itself as an obstacle to be outwitted and
second-guessed. From how to pick locks (and the tools required) to
how to case a bank on the edge of town, readers will learn to
detect the vulnerabilities, blind spots, and unseen openings that
surround us all the time. This simultaneously allows us to view the
city from specific buildings and individual rooms to whole
neighbourhoods through the privileged eyes of FBI investigating
agents and security consultants, people dedicated both to solving
and to preempting these attempts at devious entry. Full of absurd
and marvelous stories of heists and capers, A Burglar's Guide to
the City offers a kind of criminal X-ray of our built environment.
Never again will readers enter a bank without imagining the vault
geometry, or visit a museum without plotting ways to bring their
favourite painting home with them.
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This book offers cutting-edge thinking on contemporary urban
spaces.The devastation brought upon New Orleans by Hurricane
Katrina and the subsequent levee system failure has forced urban
theorists to revisit the fundamental question of urban geography
and planning: What is a city? Is it a place of memory embedded in
architecture, a location in regional and global networks, or an
arena wherein communities form and reproduce themselves?Planners,
architects, policymakers, and geographers from across the political
spectrum have weighed in on how best to respond to the destruction
wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The twelve contributors to ""What Is
a City?"" are a diverse group from the disciplines of anthropology,
architecture, geography, philosophy, planning, public policy
studies, and sociology, as well as community organizing. They
believe that these conversations about the fate of New Orleans are
animated by assumptions and beliefs about the function of cities in
general.They unpack post-Katrina discourse, examining what expert
and public responses tell us about current attitudes not just
toward New Orleans, but toward cities. As volume coeditor Phil
Steinberg points out in his introduction, ""Even before the
floodwaters had subsided...scholars and planners were beginning to
reflect on Hurricane Katrina and its disastrous aftermath, and they
were beginning to ask bigger questions with implications for cities
as a whole.""The experience of catastrophe forces us to reconsider
not only the material but the abstract and virtual qualities of
cities. It requires us to revisit how we think about, plan for, and
live in them.
This book offers cutting-edge thinking on contemporary urban
spaces.The devastation brought upon New Orleans by Hurricane
Katrina and the subsequent levee system failure has forced urban
theorists to revisit the fundamental question of urban geography
and planning: What is a city? Is it a place of memory embedded in
architecture, a location in regional and global networks, or an
arena wherein communities form and reproduce themselves?Planners,
architects, policymakers, and geographers from across the political
spectrum have weighed in on how best to respond to the destruction
wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The twelve contributors to ""What Is
a City?"" are a diverse group from the disciplines of anthropology,
architecture, geography, philosophy, planning, public policy
studies, and sociology, as well as community organizing. They
believe that these conversations about the fate of New Orleans are
animated by assumptions and beliefs about the function of cities in
general.They unpack post-Katrina discourse, examining what expert
and public responses tell us about current attitudes not just
toward New Orleans, but toward cities. As volume coeditor Phil
Steinberg points out in his introduction, ""Even before the
floodwaters had subsided...scholars and planners were beginning to
reflect on Hurricane Katrina and its disastrous aftermath, and they
were beginning to ask bigger questions with implications for cities
as a whole.""The experience of catastrophe forces us to reconsider
not only the material but the abstract and virtual qualities of
cities. It requires us to revisit how we think about, plan for, and
live in them.
Shaun O'Boyle has been photographing ruined landscapes and
buildings, primarily in the mid-Atlantic region, for more than
twenty-five years. This collection of photographs features some of
his best work. The book is divided into four sections, each
representing a type of site now abandoned--prisons and mental
health institutions, steel production facilities, coal mining and
processing facilities, and a weapons arsenal. These photographs are
hauntingly beautiful; they are also historically and culturally
instructive.
Modern Ruins begins with an introduction by architectural
essayist Geoff Manaugh, who offers insight into why people are so
drawn to ruins and what they might mean to us in a larger
psychological sense. Brief essays by noted historians Curt Miner,
Kenneth Warren, Kenneth Wolensky, and Thomas Lewis offer social and
historical contexts for the sites documented in the book. These
sites include Eastern State Penitentiary, Bethlehem Steel, and
Bannerman's Island Arsenal, among others. The book concludes with
an interview with the photographer that touches on his fascination
with ruins and explores some of his procedures for documenting
them. Modern Ruins is a compelling collection of stunning and
melancholy photographs, one that helps us hear these abandoned
places speak.
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