Seeing Like a State
Subtitle: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 8, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780300078152
Subjects: Central government policies; Constitution: government & the state; Social welfare & social services; Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Anthropology - Cultural; Development - Economic Development; Sociology - Social Theory; Political Science / General; Public Policy - Regional Planning
First sentence: Certain forms of knowledge and control require a narrowing of vision.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Part 1.
title: STATE PROJECTS OF LEGIBILITY AND SIMPLIFICATION
pagenum: 9; label: Chapter 1.
title: Nature and Space
pagenum: 11; label: Chapter 2.
title: Cities, People, and Language
pagenum: 53; label: Part 2.
title: TRANSFORMING VISIONS
pagenum: 85; label: Chapter 3.
title: Authoritarian High Modernism
pagenum: 87; label: Chapter 4.
title: The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique
pagenum: 103; label: Chapter 5.
title: The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis
pagenum: 147; label: Part 3.
title: THE SOCIAL ENGINEERING OF RURAL SETTLEMENT AND PRODUCTION
pagenum: 181; label: Chapter 6.
title: Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams
pagenum: 193; label: Chapter 7.
title: Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization
pagenum: 223; label: Chapter 8.
title: Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity
pagenum: 262; label: PART 4.
title: THE MISSING LINK
pagenum: 307; label: Chapter 9.
title: Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Métis
pagenum: 309; label: Chapter 10.
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 342; label: Notes
pagenum: 359; label: Sources for Illustrations
pagenum: 433; label: Index
pagenum: 435