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Published on: 2014-05-23
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This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these threats are encountered and countered in the urban age, focusing on the issue of human knowledge and self-awareness, just as Hannah Arendt’s influential The Human Condition did half a century ago. The Human Condition is now The Urban Condition. And it is this condition that will define human prospects in an age of default and risk. Gleeson expertly explores the concept through three main themes. The first is an exploration of what defines the current human condition, especially the expanding cities that are at the heart of an over-consumptive world economic order. The second exposes and reviews the reawakening of forms of knowledge (‘naturalism’) that are likely to worsen not improve our comprehension of the crisis. The new ‘science of urbanism’ in popular new literature exemplifies this dangerous trend. The third and last part of the book considers prospects for a new urban, and therefore human, dispensation, ‘The Good City’. We must first journey in our urban vessels through troubled times. But can we now start to plot the way to new shores, to a safer, more resilient city that provides for human flourishing The Urban Condition attempts this ideal, conceiving a new urbanism based on the old idea of self-limitation.The Urban Condition is an original, timely book that reconsiders and redeploys Arendt’s famous notion of The Human Condition in an age of cities and risk. It brings together several important strands of human consideration, urbanisation, climate threat, resource depletion, economic default and critical knowledge and weaves them into a new analysis of the times. It also looks to a future that is nearly with us—of changed climate, resource scarcity and economic stress. The book journeys into these troubled times, proposing the idea of Lifeboat Cities as a way of thinking about the human journey to come UrbanArc Indian Institute for Human Settlements Large infrastructure development especially transport infrastructure has had a close relationship with how cities and urban regions grow and develop. Smart city innovations for sustainable cities? An analysis ... Publication on same authors. Urban crowdsourcing: guidelines for cities Policy Briefs n9 2016 Tatiana de Feraudy Mathieu Saujot French cities have launched ... Jane Jacobss Theories on Urban Planningand Democracy in ... In a year when American democracy has courted despotism Jacobss work offers a warning and a challenge. Her goal was never merely to enlighten urban planners. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty - The ... Halfway through the 12th century and a long time before economists began pondering how to turn poor places into rich ones the Germanic prince Henry the Lion set out ... Projects Fallen Fruit A Day In Paradise Caldera Presents Fallen Fruit of Portland! Join us for a day of free events and site specific artworks created by artist collaborative Fallen Fruit ... Newsroom Teachers College Columbia University Teachers College Columbia University 525 West 120th St. * New York NY 10027 * 212-678-3000 "Unleashing the beast - Aleister Crowley Tantra and Sex ... UNLEASHING THE BEAST. Aleister Crowley Tantra and Sex Magic in Late Victorian England. Hugh Urban. Ohio State University Back Issues Socialism and Democracy 40 (Volume 20 No. 1) March 2006. Introduction by The Editors. SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY AT 20. Frank Rosengarten Looking Back in Order to Look Ahead: Twenty Years ... A three step manifesto for a smarter fairer economy The ... (Or why technology created the economy that helped Donald Trump and Brexit to win and why we have to fix it.) The world has not just been thrown into crisis because ... 100 Urban Trends - BMW Guggenheim Lab 100 Urban Trends: A Glossary of Ideas from the BMW Guggenheim Lab
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