1st Edition
The City in Geography Renaturing the Built Environment
Chapter 1. Thinking Geography – A Brief History Chapter 2. The Nature of Geography – Geological Time Chapter 3. Becoming Geography – Creation Scapes Chapter 4. The Fall of Geography – The Fate of Ground Chapter 5. Building Geography – Emerging, Forming, Patterning Chapter 6. Future Geography – City Adaptations and Meta-Morphoricals
Biography
Benedict Anderson is an independent scholar and practices in design, architecture and public art. He has worked in many different universities, lectured extensively as an invited speaker and exhibited in major exhibitions. His previous book, Buried City, Unearthing Teufelsberg, Berlin and its Geography of Forgetting, was published by Routledge in 2017.
"Geography as a way of thinking has been in recession. Not since Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (University of Chicago Press 1956) and The Geography of the Imagination (Picador 1984) has there been a sustained attempt at using geographical lenses to understand human interactions with the surface of this planet. Anderson makes a new start." -Leon van Schaik AO, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
"Linking the rewilding of the future city to the wilding of the people who live there, Anderson’s short history of ‘geography’s downfall’ makes a compelling case for ‘turning over and breaking the ground’ in a new, sustainable contract not only with topography but with our own ‘wild surfaces’. Original, widely referenced, The City in Geography recasts the scope and outreach of (post-) human geography." -Paul Cater, Professor of Design and Urbanism, RMIT University, Australia
