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The Urban Apparatus : Mediapolitics and the City.
'The Urban Apparatus' analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. Its main argument is that understanding the city as infrastructure (i.e. hardware in all senses) reveals the category of the urban, and of urbanization, to be a way...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'The Urban Apparatus' analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. Its main argument is that understanding the city as infrastructure (i.e. hardware in all senses) reveals the category of the urban, and of urbanization, to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly-bound neoliberal regime, rather than an empirical or properly theoretical description of that regime. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452953106 1452953104 9781452955391 1452955395 |