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Our Urban Planet in Theory and History by Carl Nightingale (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Our Urban Planet in Theory and History, Paperback by Nightingale, Carl, ISBN 1009321803, ISBN-13 9781009321808, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009321803

ISBN-139781009321808

eBay Product ID (ePID)13067058978

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Book TitleOur Urban Planet in Theory and History

Number of Pages75 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicSocial History, World

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorCarl Nightingale

Book SeriesElements in Global Urban History Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.2 in

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal307.760722

Table Of ContentPreliminary 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.

SynopsisThis 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberHT361.N5 2024