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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people and living entities urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges, and perpetually under pressure. As the notion of unsettled appears to define contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an indeterminate ground unfolding through routines, temporalities and contestations in tension between settling and unsettling. Such contrasting experiences are contingent on how urban societies confront, undergo and overcome turbulence and difficulties in time and space. A collection of contributions drawing on theoretical reflections and empirical accounts-from Argentina, Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Vietnam-give insights into past and present plural uncertainties, antagonisms and ambivalences in a variety of urban forms, relations and expressions. The chapters reveal conditions under which unsettled might tie down or unleash transformative, liberatory and emancipatory potentials. This book is for students, professionals, and researchers interested in the uncertainties, foundations, disturbances, inconsistencies, residuals and blind fields which constitute the urban both as lived space and as social, cultural and political ideal"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
City planning.
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Public spaces -- Social aspects.
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Public spaces -- Political aspects.
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Architecture and society.
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Architecture and society. (OCoLC)fst00813574
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City planning. (OCoLC)fst00862177
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Public spaces -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01083058
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Public spaces -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01083062
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| Added Author |
Viderman, Tihomir, editor.
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Knierbein, Sabine, 1977- editor.
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Kränzle, Elina, editor.
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Frank, Sybille, editor.
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Roskamm, Nikolai, editor.
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Wall, Ed, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Unsettled urban space New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9780367258610 (DLC) 2022024750 |
| ISBN |
9780429290237 (ebook) |
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0429290233 |
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9780367258610 (hardback) |
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9780367258603 (paperback) |
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