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Seeing Like a City by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift; drawings by Katarina N is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Seeing Like a City about?
<br>Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city.<
Who reads Seeing Like a City?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift; drawings by Katarina N
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.;Polity
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745664262
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Social Science, Science, Urban
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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