New urban worlds : inhabiting dissonant times

Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1: Paradoxes of the Urban -- Inhabiting the paradox -- Catch-22 -- Conceptual interventions -- Governing the urban -- Signposts -- Notes -- 2: Precarious Now -- Shifting sands: people, work and aspirati...
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Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1: Paradoxes of the Urban -- Inhabiting the paradox -- Catch-22 -- Conceptual interventions -- Governing the urban -- Signposts -- Notes -- 2: Precarious Now -- Shifting sands: people, work and aspirations -- Urban scenarios -- Urban transitions and technological waves -- Notes -- 3: Re-Description -- The intended and unintended experiments of everyday urban life -- The fragile threads of collective action -- Inhabiting extensive parametric space -- Urban politics and markets -- Notes -- 4: Secretions -- Moving to stay in place -- Slim margins -- Paying attention to the details -- Stepping beyond the details -- Just where are the secrets? -- Working in secret -- 5: Horizons from Within the Break -- For the adaptive city -- Operating system assemblages -- Politicizing operating systems -- Metrics for transformation -- From metrics to infrastructural claim-making -- Molecular imperatives -- Meta imperatives -- Notes -- 6: Experimentations -- The unvalued art of subtlety -- Experimentation -- Tales from imperfect practice -- The exigencies of experimentation -- Notes -- 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories -- Keeping multiple stories in play -- The politics of indifference -- Stories are not clean slates -- Responsibility and instigation -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement Ausführliche Beschreibung