Cities: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering - Softcover

Thrift, Nigel; Amin, Ash

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745624146 ISBN 13: 9780745624143

Verlag: Polity Press, 2002

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Críticas:

'A wonderfully incisive dissection of new configurations of "cities" in the contemporary world.' John Urry, Lancaster University 'A brilliant re-viewing of cities. Bursting with fresh insights, it demands that we see and hear urban life and the everyday workings of the metropolis in new ways, that we re-cognize urban complexities, that we resensitize ourselves to all the transitory conjunctures and disjunctures through which the urban is perpetually (re)constituted, that we reconceive the terrain of urban political possibility. In short, if there is one book to be read on contemporary urban phenomena, this is unquestionably it.' Allan Pred, University of California at Berkeley "In this important and provocative book, Amin and Thrift set out the rudiments of what might be termed a 'post -urban sociology...The book is certainly an intellectual tour-de-force. It fizzes with ideas and brings a range of novel perspectives to bear...I will certainly be looking forward to reading the future works of these writers" Mike Savage, Sociology

Reseña del editor:

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of life.

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• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0745624146
• ISBN 13: 9780745624143
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194