Allison M. Schifani

Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas

Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City

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Produktbeschreibung

Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas argues that imagining catastrophe can offer alternatives to and critiques of capitalist logics in the urban world, taking a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the 21st century.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Environmental Humanities
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 153mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780367519360
• ISBN-10: 0367519364
• Artikelnr.: 60017295

Autorenporträt

Allison M. Schifani is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, Florida, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Weather of Catastrophe and the Vertical Field
Chapter 2: Alternative Sprawls, Junk Cities: Buenos Aires Libre and
Horizontal Urban Knowledges
Interlude: Urban Sprawl
Chapter 3: YOUR MILLION DOLLAR HOUSES WILL SOON BE UNDERWATER: Coming
Catastrophe in Miami and the Plastic City
Interlude: Messy Terrain
Chapter 4: From the Ground Up: Aerial Tactics and Top-Down Strategies in
Los Angeles
Interlude: Plastic City
Chapter 5: Conclusion (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
City)