City Living
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-085536-9 (ISBN)
Quill R Kukla offers the first systematic philosophical investigation of the nature of city life and city dwellers. The book draws on empirical and ethnographic work in geography, anthropology, urban planning, and several other disciplines in order to explore the impact that cities have on their dwellers and that dwellers have on their cities. It begins with a philosophical exploration of spatially embodied agency and of the specific forms of agency and spatiality that are distinctive of urban life. It explores how gentrification is enacted and experienced at the level of embodied agency, arguing that gentrifying spaces are contested territories that shape and are shaped by their dwellers. The book then moves to an exploration of repurposed cities, which are cities materially designed to support one sociopolitical order, but in which that order collapsed, leaving new dwellers to use the space in new ways. Through detailed original ethnography of the repurposed cities of Berlin and Johannesburg, Kukla makes the case that in repurposed cities, we can see vividly how material spaces shape and constrain the agency and experience of dwellers, while dwellers creatively shape the spaces they inhabit in accordance with their needs. The book concludes with a reconsideration of the right to the city, asking what would be involved in creating a city that enabled the agency and flourishing of all its diverse inhabitants.
Quill R Kukla is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, as well as a Humboldt Scholar at Leibniz Universität Hannover. They are completing a Master's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning at Georgetown University. Their previous books include Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mother's Bodies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), and, with Mark Lance, 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons (Harvard University Press, 2009). They are also a competitive amateur boxer and powerlifter.
Preface
Guide for Readers
Chapter 1: Inhabiting Space
Chapter 2: Urban Space and City Living
Chapter 3: Living with Gentrification
Chapter 4: Introduction to Repurposed Cities
Chapter 5: The Repurposed City of Berlin
Chapter 6: The Repurposed City of Johannesburg
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 12 color images; 56 b&w images |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 237 x 163 mm |
Gewicht | 612 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-085536-3 / 0190855363 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-085536-9 / 9780190855369 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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