UID:
almahu_9949386288502882
Format:
1 online resource (140 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781003055747
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1003055745
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9781000290684
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1000290689
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9781000290721
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1000290727
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9781000290769
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100029076X
Series Statement:
Routledge environmental humanities
Content:
"This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the 21st century. It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster, and that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in the Americas in which forms of play and imaginations of catastrophe intersect in the vertical field. Schifani explores a diverse range of resistant urban interventions, imagining the city as on the verge of or enmeshed in catastrophe. She also presents a model of ecocriticism that addresses aesthetic practices and forms of play in the urban environment. Tracing the historical roots of such tactics as well as mapping their hopes for the future will help the reader to locate the impacts of climate change not only on the physical space of the city, but also on the epistemological and aesthetic strategies that cities can help to engender. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and the broad and interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities"--
Note:
The weather of catastrophe and the vertical field -- Alternative sprawls, junk cities: Buenos Aires libre and horizontal urban knowledges -- Interlude: urban sprawl -- Your million dollar houses will soon be underwater: coming catastrophe in Miami and the plastic city -- Interlude: messy terrain -- From the ground up: aerial tactics and top-down strategies in Los Angeles -- Interlude: plastic city -- Conclusion (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the city)
Additional Edition:
Print version: Schifani, Allison M. Verticality, catastrophe, and the mediated city. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367519360
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History
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Electronic books
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003055747
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