UID:
almafu_9961252115002883
Format:
1 online resource (462 pages).
ISBN:
0-300-25298-6
Series Statement:
Veritas Paperbacks
Content:
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Note:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. Nature and Space --
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Chapter 2. Cities, People, and Language --
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Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism --
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Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique --
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Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis --
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Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dream --
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Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization --
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Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity --
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Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis --
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Chapter 10. Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Sources for Illustrations --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-24675-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.12987/9780300252989
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