UID:
edoccha_9958130651502883
Format:
1 online resource (169 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2016.
ISBN:
1-137-54616-6
Series Statement:
Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment
Content:
Proposing a renovation of the metaphor of the urban fabric, Interwoven Cities develops an analysis of how cities might be woven into alternative patterns, to better sustain social and ecological life.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction: Threads; 1 Frictions in the Urban Fabric; 1.1 The total city; 1.2 Urbanisms of the new millennium; 1.3 Hyper-urbanism in the Global South; 1.4 Fabrics of a planetary urbanism; 1.5 Development of the super-suburb: Parramatta, Australia; 2 Spreading Out the Fabric: Urban, Rural, Global; 2.1 Intertwining town and country; 2.2 The emergence of the global city; 2.3 Tangled threads of land registration: Phnom Penh, Cambodia; 3 Upholding the Urban Fabric
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3.1 Reconditionings: dispositifs, assemblages, fabrics3.2 An analytic for a global urban fabric; 3.3 Weaving sustainable urban futures; 3.4 Refabricating the interwoven city; 3.5 Child trafficking on the new front of global urbanism: Siliguri, India; 4 Refabricating the City; 4.1 Urban complexities: circuitry, networks, algorithms; 4.2 Computational epistemologies of the city; 4.3 Open fabrications; 4.4 The 'Janus Face' of technification; 4.5 Simulating the interwoven city: Fierce Planet; 5 Sensing the Urban Fabric; 5.1 Opening up the forbidden city; 5.2 A carnivalesque urbanism
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5.3 Metis and the city5.4 Patterning the interwoven city; 5.5 Urban comedies of the commons; Conclusion: Reweaving the Global Urban Fabric; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-349-71397-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-137-54615-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/9781137546166
