Maan Barua, "Lively Cities"
English | ISBN: 1517912563 | 2023 | 382 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1517912563 | 2023 | 382 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the planet, and cities are replete with nonhuman life. Yet current accounts of the urban remain resolutely anthropocentric. Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities, drawing attention to a suite of beings—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of city making.
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