Nutopia: A Critical View of Future Cities - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841022640 ISBN 13 : 9781841022642

Editeur : University of Plymouth Press, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Envisioning the city used to be easy: it was a place of safety, stability, proximity and trade. Through the period of European modernity, cities became diverse; by the nineteenth century the metropolis was a location of cultural migration and social mixing, and of anonymity. Now, in a period of de-industrialisation in the West, when cities are represented by symbolic economies, it is no longer possible to give a unified definition of the City: there are cities and sites of difference or cosmopolitanism, sites of security rather than safety, and sites of distancing as much as of togetherness. Yet a majority of the world s human population now live in cities, which are likely to remain the dominant form of habitat. How, then, do we envision (or regenerate) cities for a humane and viable future?

Revue de presse

In order to investigate how cities are envisioned, British cultural critics cross various academic fields and professional practices from cultural theory to ethnography and from art to sustainable food production. They find no definitive vision, but suggest that new insights emerge in the interstices between approaches. Some of the chapters are revisions of papers at the April 2009 conference Nutopia, held in Cardiff, while others reflect academic research at the University of Plymouth and elsewhere. --Eithne O'Leyne, Editor BOOK NEWS

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Plymouth Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841022640
• ISBN 13: 9781841022642
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Miles Malcolm, Savage Jennie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible