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Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings
the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about
Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations.
Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that
mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics
such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing
conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flaneur
and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions,
and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the
image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find
substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City's monumental
and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal
contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both
as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American
city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico
City.
This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy
practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building
on foundational ideas in policy sciences, we argue that an
anachronistic instrumental rationalism underlies contemporary
policy logic and limits efforts to understand new policy
challenges. We consider whether the policy sciences framework can
be reframed to facilitate deeper understandings of this
anachronistic epistemic, in anticipation of a research agenda about
epistemic destabilization and contestation. The Element applies
this theoretical provocation to environmental policy and
sustainability, issues about which policymaking proceeds amid
unpredictable contexts and rising sociopolitical turbulence that
portend a liminal state in the transition from one way of thinking
to another. The Element concludes by contemplating the fate of
policy's epistemic instability, anticipating what policy
understandings will emerge in a new system, and questioning the
degree to which either presages a seismic shift in the relationship
between policy and society.
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