{"product_id":"fragments-of-the-city-9780520382244","title":"Fragments of the City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCities 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. InFragments 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 exploresinfrastructure 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFragments of the City\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully written book, and it reads as if one listens to music – the pieces enter the senses, reach the soul, do their subconscious working, and bring out the listener\/reader enriched, enlightened, inspired.\" * Planning Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e Reading Fragments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pursuing Fragments\u003cbr\u003e Routes\u003cbr\u003e On the Margins\u003cbr\u003e An Urban World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pulling Together, Falling Apart\u003cbr\u003e Materializing the City\u003cbr\u003e Urban Life Support\u003cbr\u003e Volumetric Urbanism\u003cbr\u003e Fragmenting Cities\u003cbr\u003e Social Infrastructure\u003cbr\u003e Care and Consolidation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Knowing Fragments\u003cbr\u003e In the Relation\u003cbr\u003e Presence-Absence\u003cbr\u003e The Gap\u003cbr\u003e Knowledge Fragments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Writing in Fragments\u003cbr\u003e Montaging Urban Modernity\u003cbr\u003e Without Closure\u003cbr\u003e Points of Departure \u003cbr\u003e Fragments and Possibility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Political Framings\u003cbr\u003e Attending to Fragments Maintaining\u003cbr\u003e In-Between Generative Translation\u003cbr\u003e Reformation Junk Art\u003cbr\u003e Relocating Surveying Wholes\u003cbr\u003e Political Becoming\u003cbr\u003e Occupation Being Present \u003cbr\u003e Provisioning Value Exhibiting Stories\u003cbr\u003e Walking Cities\u003cbr\u003e Encountering the City\u003cbr\u003e Intersecting Writings\u003cbr\u003e Routes and Their Limits\u003cbr\u003e Remnants\u003cbr\u003e Space and Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Completion\u003cbr\u003e An Exploded View\u003cbr\u003e Experimenting\u003cbr\u003e Connective Devices\u003cbr\u003e Excursions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733844275543,"sku":"9780520382244","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520382244.jpg?v=1720001866","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fragments-of-the-city-9780520382244","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}