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Topothesia : Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess /
"Topothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the conte...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2023.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Improving places: liberal colonialism and the speculative imaginary of early
- Planning garden cities: the art and craft of making place in Edwardian Britain
- Planning as imperial cultivation in the work of Patrick Geddes
- Part II. Diminishing horizons: the ambivalent temporalities of development
- Capturing the city: regeneration, policing, and the ghosts of postcolonial Britain
- The end of London: temporalities of the gentrified city
- Leveling up: Zadie Smith's NW and the development of the planned self
- Geographies of discontent: brexit and the politics of abandonment.