Seeing Like a City
Ash Amin
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Description for Seeing Like a City
Paperback. Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 259 x 18. Weight in Grams: 290.
Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city.
Such a view locates urban outcomes and influences in the character of these networks, which together power urban life, allocating resources, shaping ... Read more
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Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745664262
SKU
V9780745664262
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Ref
99-2
About Ash Amin
Ash Amin is 1931 Chair in Geography and Fellow of Christ�s College at the University of Cambridge Nigel Thrift is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick
Reviews for Seeing Like a City
�Amin and Thrift are a magnificent duet, conjuring for the reader a sensorium of the intersecting forces affecting and shaped by the sociotechnical systems making up the urban. Here, cities are the locus through which to rethink the very composition of our world and how we might remake, with reinvestment in the provisioning of public goods, a more judicious, viable ... Read more