Our Urban Planet in Theory and History

Our Urban Planet in Theory and History
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 9781009321761
ISBN-13 : 1009321765
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Book Synopsis Our Urban Planet in Theory and History by : Carl Nightingale

Download or read book Our Urban Planet in Theory and History written by Carl Nightingale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to offer to theorists particularly those involved in debates over planetary urbanization theory and the Anthropocene. We must enlarge our concept of 'urban' to include spaces that make cities possible and that cities make possible and become comfortable with longer temporal frames that nest global urban history within Earth Time. Above all we need to add the crucial dimension of power, redefining cities as spaces that humans produce to amplify harvests of geo-solar energy and deploy human power within space and time. The element uses insights from 'deep history' to set the stage for a 'theory by verb' elaborating the many paradoxes of humans' 6,000-year gamble with the Urban Condition and explaining cities' own intrinsic capacity to outrun their own theorizability.


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