1st Edition
Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City
By Allison M. Schifani
Copyright 2021
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century. It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster and that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in the Americas in... Read more
Chapter 1: The Weather of Catastrophe and the Vertical Field
Chapter 2: Alternative Sprawls, Junk Cities: Buenos Aires Libre and Horizontal Urban Knowledges
Interlude: Urban Sprawl
Chapter 3: YOUR MILLION DOLLAR HOUSES WILL SOON BE UNDERWATER: Coming Catastrophe in Miami and the Plastic City
Interlude: Messy Terrain
Chapter 4: From the Ground Up: Aerial Tactics and Top-Down Strategies in Los Angeles
Interlude: Plastic City
Chapter 5: Conclusion (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the City)
Biography
Allison M. Schifani is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, Florida, USA.
