Fragments of the City Making and Remaking Urban Worlds.

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 ar...

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Main Author: McFarlane, Colin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • 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
  • Generative Translation
  • Reformation
  • Surveying Wholes
  • Political Becoming
  • Occupation
  • Value
  • 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.