Interwoven Cities [electronic resource] /
Magee, Liam.author.
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.
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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
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
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sustainable development.
Environmental management.
Social policy.
Regional planning.
Urban planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Administrative law.
Sustainable Development.
Environmental Management.
Social Policy.
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Administrative Law.