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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
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