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Item Details
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UNLEARNING THE CITY
INFRASTRUCTURE IN A NEW OPTICAL FIELD |
| By: |
Swati Chattopadhyay |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£23.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0816679320 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780816679324 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 December, 2012 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Synopsis: |
Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the ever-changing element of human experience.Urban life is intrinsically messy and usually refuses to conform to the rigid views laid down in much of urban studies theory. Chattopadhyay looks at urban life in India with a fresh perspective that incorporates the everyday and the unstructured. As the first to apply the theories of subalternity for an understanding of urban history, Chattopadhyay provides an in-depth study of vehicular art, street cricket, political wall writing, and religious festivities that link the visual and spatial attributes of these popular cultural forms with the imagination and practices of urban life. She contends that these practices have a direct impact on the configuration and knowledge of public space, and the political potential of the people inhabiting cities.Unlearning the City uses the popular culture of Indian cities to question the dominant conception of urban infrastructure and encourage a conceptual realignment in how the city is seen, discussed, and even experienced. |
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US |
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University of Minnesota Press |
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Returnable |
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