Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Cities Without Citizens on EtoBox?

Cities Without Citizens by Eduardo Cadava & Aaron Levy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cities Without Citizens about?

The first in the Slought Books Theory Series, this interdisciplinary publication is edited by Eduardo Cadava and Aaron Levy and comprises a collection of essays and documents engaging issues of citizenship, human rights, and the architecture of cities. It features contributions by noted artists, architects and theorists including Giorgio Agamben, Arakawa + Gins, Branka Arsic, Eduardo Cadava, Joan Dayan, Gans & Jelacic Architecture, Thomas Keenan, Gregg Lambert, Aaron Levy, David Lloyd, Rafi Segal Eyal Weizman Architects, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Published with the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, in conjunction with "Cities Without Citizens," an exhibition at the Rosenbach organized by Aaron Levy in 2003."What is a city? What are the laws or constitutions that make a city a city, that prevent it from becoming something else, even as it inevitably undergoes transformation and change? What would it mean to establish the borders of a city, to define and delimit it in order to confer an identity upon it? How is a city lost, destroyed, abandoned, and then perhaps rebuilt from its ruins, sometimes in other places and in memory of its name and patrimony? What would it me

Who reads Cities Without Citizens?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Eduardo Cadava & Aaron Levy
Publisher
Slought Foundation
Published
2003
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Latin American History, Humanities

More by Eduardo Cadava & Aaron Levy

Browse all works by Eduardo Cadava & Aaron Levy

Similar books