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Autore |
Edensor Tim |
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Titolo |
Stone : Stories of Urban Materiality / / by Tim Edensor |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 376 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human geography |
Urban planning |
City planning |
Sociology, Urban |
Human Geography |
Urbanism |
Urban Studies/Sociology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cliff -- Chapter 1: Thinking about Urban Materiality -- Tomb -- Chapter 2: Stony Flows -- Quartz -- Chapter 3: Stony Entanglements: Quarrying, Demolition, Disposal and Remediation -- Foundation -- Chapter 4: The Maintenance and Repair of Stone Assemblages -- Tree -- Chapter 5: Remembering with Stone -- Grotto -- Chapter 6: Sensing Place: Living with Melbourne’s Stone -- Garden -- Chapter 7: Becoming Attuned to Stone: Skill, Craft, Making -- Temple -- Chapter 8: The Ghosts of Urban Stone -- Scholar Stone. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone. The work draws on a range of pertinent, current theories that consider materiality, assemblages, networks, phenomenology, resource and extraction geographies, memorialisation, maintenance and repair, place identity, skill, sensation and affect, haunting and the vitalism of the non-human. In appealing to the general reader, academics and students, this book provides a highly readable account, replete with evocative examples and fascinating historical and contemporary stories about |
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