The Urban Apparatus : Mediapolitics and the City

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'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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Martin, Reinhold
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cities and towns.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
cities.
Villes.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9781452953106

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