Cities: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering

by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift

Book Overview

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745624146
• ISBN13: 9780745624143
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"