Fragments of the City (eBook)

Making and Remaking Urban Worlds

Colin McFarlane (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
328 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520382251 (ISBN)

Infos

Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change. In Fragments of the City, Colin McFarlane examines such fragments, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those living on the economic margins, the city is often experienced as a set of fragments. Much of what low-income residents deal with on a daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice. In this book, McFarlane explores infrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala, and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong Kong and New York. Fragments surface as material things, as forms of knowledge, as writing strategies. They are used in efforts to politicize the city and in urban writing to capture life and change in the world's major cities. Fragments of the City surveys the role of fragments in how urban worlds are understood, revealed, written, and changed.

Inhalt

List of Figures
Prologue
Reading Fragments

Pursuing Fragments
Routes
On the Margins
An Urban World

Pulling Together, Falling Apart
Materializing the City
Urban Life Support
Volumetric Urbanism
Fragmenting Cities
Social Infrastructure
Care and Consolidation

Knowing Fragments
In the Relation
Presence-Absence
The Gap
Knowledge Fragments

Writing in Fragments
Montaging Urban Modernity
Without Closure
Points of Departure 
Fragments and Possibility

Political Framings
Attending to Fragments Maintaining
In-Between Generative Translation
Reformation Junk Art
Relocating Surveying Wholes
Political Becoming
Occupation Being Present 
Provisioning Value Exhibiting Stories
Walking Cities
Encountering the City
Intersecting Writings
Routes and Their Limits
Remnants
Space and Time

In Completion
An Exploded View
Experimenting
Connective Devices
Excursions

Notes
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9780520382251 / 9780520382251