Fragments of the City

Making and Remaking Urban Worlds

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvColin McFarlane

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-10-05
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520382237

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List of FiguresPrologueReading FragmentsPursuing FragmentsRoutesOn the MarginsAn Urban WorldPulling Together, Falling ApartMaterializing the CityUrban Life SupportVolumetric UrbanismFragmenting CitiesSocial InfrastructureCare and ConsolidationKnowing FragmentsIn the RelationPresence-AbsenceThe GapKnowledge FragmentsWriting in FragmentsMontaging Urban ModernityWithout ClosurePoints of Departure Fragments and PossibilityPolitical FramingsAttending to Fragments MaintainingIn-Between Generative TranslationReformation Junk ArtRelocating Surveying WholesPolitical BecomingOccupation Being Present Provisioning Value Exhibiting StoriesWalking CitiesEncountering the CityIntersecting WritingsRoutes and Their LimitsRemnantsSpace and TimeIn CompletionAn Exploded ViewExperimentingConnective DevicesExcursionsNotesBibliography Index

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