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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. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Topothesia : |b Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess / |c Ameeth Vijay. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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 contemporary geography of Britain--sharply unequal and marked by racial division-- continues ideologies of place established in colonial contexts. Specifically, planning allows for the speculative construction of future places that are both utopian in their ability to resolve political disagreement and at the same tantalizingly realizable, able to be produced in concrete reality. This speculative imaginary, I argue, is only possible within the ideological framework of colonialism and the history of empire within which it developed"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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