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Cities rethought : a new urban disposition / Gautam Bhan, et al.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge ; Polity Press, 2025Description: xiv, 183 p. : 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781509565610 (pbk)
  • 9781509565603
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 BHA
Contents:
Table of Contents : Prologue: A Note to the Reader 1 An Urban Disposition Dear Reader Three elements Putting the three together How to read this book And so 2 Normative Locations What is the fabric of the city? How do you consume a deleted future? What kind of fight can you pick in the city? What is the urbanity of the state? What evidence matters for cities? Taking stock 3 Analytical Redescriptions Choosing our puzzles Improving an estate Upstream of the river Repairing patchworks The propensity of lychees Spaces across the aisle Amidst the numbers Taking stock 4 Operational Moves Mapping the operational ecosystem Modalities of change in systems Sensing a pulse Evaluating our moves Moving an idea within a system Building a social imagination A life in practice A Parting Note
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BOOKs . General Stacks 307.76 BHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PB Available Recommended by Prof. Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy 40234

Table of Contents :
Prologue: A Note to the Reader
1 An Urban Disposition
Dear Reader
Three elements
Putting the three together
How to read this book
And so
2 Normative Locations
What is the fabric of the city?
How do you consume a deleted future?
What kind of fight can you pick in the city?
What is the urbanity of the state?
What evidence matters for cities?
Taking stock
3 Analytical Redescriptions
Choosing our puzzles
Improving an estate
Upstream of the river
Repairing patchworks
The propensity of lychees
Spaces across the aisle
Amidst the numbers
Taking stock

4 Operational Moves
Mapping the operational ecosystem
Modalities of change in systems
Sensing a pulse
Evaluating our moves
Moving an idea within a system
Building a social imagination
A life in practice

A Parting Note