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Author Gleeson, Brendan, 1964- author

Title The urban condition / Brendan Gleeson
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014
Abingdon, Oxon Routledge, 2014

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Description 165 pages ; 24 cm
Series Questioning cities
Questioning cities series.
Contents Dialectics of the urban modernity -- Part I. The urban age. Stadtluft macht frei? ; Hard wired for growth -- Part II. Spectres of nature. Rise of the urban revolutionaries (again) ; 'Make no little plans': planning ambition and possibility ; Resilience and its discontents -- Part III. To the next world. Dark natalities ; In the guise of a miracle
Summary This book reconsiders and redeploys Arendt's famous notion of The Human Condition in an age of cities and risk. It brings together several important strands of human consideration, urbanisation, climate threat, resource depletion, economic default and critical knowledge and weaves them into a new analysis of the times. It also looks to a future that is nearly with us--of changed climate, resource scarcity and economic stress. The book journeys into these troubled times, proposing the idea of Lifeboat Cities as a way of thinking about the human journey to come
Analysis Australian
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Urbanization.
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
LC no. 2013049799
ISBN 9780415816120 (hardback)
0415816122 (hardback)