Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives

by René Boer

How urban paradigms of efficiency, sanitization and surveillance transform city life into seamless "experience" and erode the non-normative

In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the active eradication of any aberration, friction or alternative. From Dubai, Hong Kong and London to Amsterdam and Cairo, the smooth city,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9493246205
• ISBN13: 9789493246201
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Valiz
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.6" x 7.5"