The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.
The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.
Ash Amin is 1931 Chair of Geography at the University of Cambridge and author, coauthor, and editor of many books, including Seeing Like a City and Land of Strangers. Michele Lancione is Professor of Economic and Political Geography, DIST, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, coeditor of Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power, and the City, and editor of Rethinking Life at the Margins: The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
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