Our Urban Planet in Theory and History - Carl Nightingale

Our Urban Planet in Theory and History

Buch | Hardcover
84 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-49459-5 (ISBN)
62,30 inkl. MwSt
This 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.
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.

Preliminary Matters I: Space, time, and power; Preliminary Matters II: Global urban history, 'planetary urbanization'” and the 'Anthropocene'; Preliminary Matters III: The 'our' in 'Our urban planet'; proposition 1. Start deep, not total: humans, space, and power; Proposition 2. Energy in: urban hinterlands; Proposition 3. Cities and power: to produce + to amplify; Proposition 4. Predictably unpredictable: to deploy; Proposition 5. Power out: urban forelands; Proposition 6. Polyrhythmic plotlines: urban temporality; Proposition 7. Of morality tales, visions, and miracles: urban futures; References.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Elements in Global Urban History
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 259 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-009-49459-7 / 1009494597
ISBN-13 978-1-009-49459-5 / 9781009494595
Zustand Neuware
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